Show Saving The Past Pasi PastA PasiA A total of 47 41 nations contributed con contributed to the attempt to accomplish ac as accomplish one of ot the most baffling bat fling engineering feats of our times the rescue of the four famed colossi statues and two temples In Egypt ENGINEERS and tech n I- I clans from many parts of the globe worked together to find finda a way to lift tons of stone to the top lop of a cliff clift to save it from the rising waters of the lake created by the Aswan Aswan Aswan As As- wan Dam From a number of alternate plans the least expensive and probably the safest was offered of by Sweden With the help of an American gift gilt of 12 million mil million lion dollars In counterpart Egyptian currency the first part of the project began In March THE TilE IDEA Is to cut the col col- colossi ossi and the two temple Interiors interiors inter Inter- lors into blocks weighing 20 to 30 tons which will be lifted b b. b cranes onto flat bed trucks then carried to a new site and reassembled The temple a year old monument to Pharaoh Ramses II 11 and Queen will be reassembled on a plateau feet above the original location by workmen tolling toiling seven seven years at a cost of 36 million dollars THUS THE TilE modern world displays one example of unity and cooperation In preserving a heritage of the past |