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That smug look would likely be wiped off of Ramses' face if he knew that to save the temple from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, the Egyptian government had the whole thing disassembled and moved to higher ground, shifting the dates of the sun's illumination of the inner sanctuary each by a day!

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