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Question
Why did UNESCO launch an international campaign in 1959?
Short Answer
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Solution
In 1959, UNESCO started an international campaign to protect the Abu Simbel Temples and many ancient Egyptian treasures. The temples were carefully taken apart and shifted to higher ground to save them from being flooded by the water of the Aswan High Dam on the River Nile.
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