Sources & corrections
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UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The inscription, the scope of the salvage campaign, and the relocation of Philae, Abu Simbel and the Lake Nasser temples.
UNESCO
Campaign dates, the number of monuments moved, and the four temples transferred to Spain, the United States, the Netherlands and Italy.
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Official site status and visitor information. Ticket prices and opening hours on this site remain unverified because nobody has re-read this source inside the review window.
Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities / UNESCO
The museum opened in 1997 and was developed with UNESCO to hold and explain material recovered before the flooding.
Säve-Söderbergh (ed.), UNESCO / Thames & Hudson
The engineering of the Philae coffer dam, the dismantling and reassembly, and the reshaping of Agilkia island.
Academic publication
The 394 CE hieroglyphic and 452 CE demotic dates, and the Demotic and Meroitic pilgrim texts left by visitors from Nubia.
German Archaeological Institute / Swiss Institute
The stratigraphy of the town, the temples of Khnum and Satet, the nilometer, and the Aramaic papyri of the fifth-century BCE garrison.
University of Jaén and others
The Old and Middle Kingdom governors buried in the cliff, and the autobiography of Harkhuf carved on his tomb façade.
Linguistic publication
Nobiin and Kenzi as living Nubian languages of the Nilo-Saharan family, not dialects of Arabic, and not mutually intelligible with each other.
EgyptAir / Egyptian National Railways
Route existence only. No schedule, fare or frequency on this site is published from memory — transport facts carry a 90-day review cycle and are slots until checked.
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