Many people have seen statues, but not quite as many have seen one where you could have eight different men stand on its feet.  Well guess what, it's no fantasy, there really is a statue that big.  It is a great giant statue of King Ramses II, which stands out-side two large temples, carved into a cliff.  The cliff goes by the Nile River in Egypt.  these cliffs are called Abu Simbel, (ab-BOO-simn-bell), which was built by King Ramses II many hundreds of years ago.
 

        A brand new, high dam, is being built on (Acrobb) or the Nile River.  The bigger (higher) the dam is, the bigger (higher) the water  rises behind it.  in fact, once the dam is through, the dam water will have risen the river water high enough to flood the cliff temples.  And, Bloop-glub-bloomph, which would be the end of Abu Simbel, and the rest of the giant statues.
 

        But Egypt, the United States, and other countries part of the United Nations are giving money to help save the Ancient monuments.  The toughly, hard job of trying to move the monuments and temples has just begun.  Each of the statues will be cut into many large blocks.  Each of the large blocks will be numbered and lifted to the tops of the cliffs.  The numbers will then help the workers on how to put the large blocks back together.  Once this is done, the statues and temples will then be saved from the Nile Flood.