Qasr Ibrim, the sole Nubian monument still visible on its original location, was previously perched on the lip of a 70-meter-high cliff some 60 kilometres north of Abu Simbel, but now it is surrounded by water, which laps at its margins.
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At Amada, which is about 180 kilometres south of the High Dam, there are two temples and a mausoleum. Located around 2.6 kilometres from its original position, the Temple of Amada is the oldest surviving structure on Lake Nasser.
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Between 1961 and 1965, the temples of Wadi es-Subua were relocated to this location, which is about 4 kilometres west of the original, now-submerged Wadi as Subua.
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The temples of Kalabsha, Beit al-Wali, and Kertassi were relocated from a now-submerged site about 50 kilometres south of Aswan as part of a massive Unesco effort.
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Lake Nasser, also known as High Dam Lake, is the world's biggest manmade lake, situated in southern Egypt, south of Aswan, and northern Sudan.
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Thousands of years ago, the First Cataract separated Egypt from Nubia, extending from Aswan to Khartoum & it was rich and continually farmed in Egypt, whereas in Nubia, it was stony desert cliffs and sandy soil separated tiny pockets of agricultural land.
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