TV Review: Monster Moves - Rescuing Ramesses
Egyptology Blog (Mark Morgan)
Monster Moves: Rescuing Ramesses was shown on Tuesday night (March 4th 2008) on channel Five in the UK. I was a bit apprehensive at first but the show turned out far better than I expected.
The show told the story of the UNESCO rescue operation to save the Egyptian monuments from the rising flood waters caused by the building of the Aswan Dam and focuses specifically on the temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel but also visits Philae, Amada, and Kalabsha. The story of the rescue operation is told to accompanying colour archive footage which is very good. The narration is well paced and well explained and the old footage is very good. Interspersed with these scenes is a modern recreation of cutting and moving a giant replica stone head of Ramesses II from one of the four statues that adorns the front portico of Abu Simbel. I'm not entirely sure what the point of these segments was though. How its was done is well documented and it was only forty-years ago. It is not as if they were re-creating how Ramesses' builders built it over 3,000-years ago. Are we supposed to be surprised that sixties-man was capable of this?
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