One of the most incredible ancient sights in Egypt is Abu Simbel, 2 temples saved from the flooding by the High Dam st Aswan in the 60s.  An amazing feat of engineering created a new rock mountain and moved the temples 68′ status of Ramses II and his wife Nefertari 60′ higher and 300′ back from the flood! 20,000 blocks of the temple mountain were cut and moved in order to accomplish this!

Inside the temple all the columns and reliefs were saved.  

The smaller temple was Nefertari’s temple