Today’s Egypt Holiday Photo of the Day is of the temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel. The temple was dismantled in 1968 and moved 65 meters northwest to save it from becoming submerged under water after Egypt built the Aswan High Dam. Moving the temple was a massive, UNESCO-led project that cost over USD 40 mn at the time. That’s about USD 285 mn in today’s terms, if we’re not mistaken.

The image was shot for CIB’s 2016 Annual Report (microsite and print edition) by Zeina Abaza at Inktank Communications, which has produced the bank’s annual report for the past eight years.

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