Empress of the Nile The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson | 22.63 MB
English | 12 Pages

Title: Empress of the Nile
Author: Lynne Olson
Year: 2023

Description:
The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War

In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: Fifty countries contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples, built during the height of the pharaohs' rule, from drowning in the floodwaters of the massive new Aswan High Dam. But the extensive press coverage at the time overlooked the gutsy French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples would now be at the bottom of a vast reservoir. It was an unimaginably large and complex project that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground.
A willful real-life version...

DOWNLOAD:

https://rapidgator.net/file/84c3011fe5c27b6ba415f47033316731/Empress_of_the_Nile__The_Daredevil_Archaeologist_Who_Saved_Egypts_Ancient_Temples_from_Destruction_by_Lynne_Olson_.rar
https://uploadgig.com/file/download/28dfb6abd3B6d6Ed/Empress_of_the_Nile__The_Daredevil_Archaeologist_Who_Saved_Egypts_Ancient_Temples_from_Destruction_by_Lynne_Olson_.rar