Finalist · Round One

Abu Simbel — Moving a Mountain

أبو سمبل — نقل الجبل

Ramses II's monument and the modern rescue that saved it.

Ramses II sets out to defeat time by cutting his name into a mountain, from his coronation through Kadesh to Abu Simbel. Thousands of years later the rising water of Lake Nasser forces the world to take that mountain apart and rebuild it on higher ground.