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🗓️ 9 May 2023
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0:00.0 | It's got to hear with another episode of the History and Plug podcast. |
0:07.5 | In the 1960s, the international media was focused on a male-biting race against time. |
0:12.7 | 50 countries had contributed nearly a billion dollars to saving a dozen ancient Egyptian |
0:17.5 | temples, who were thousands of years old, from drowning in the flood waters of the gigantic |
0:21.8 | new Osuon High Dam. |
0:23.0 | But these temples weren't moved, they'd be at the bottom of a huge reservoir, but doing |
0:26.9 | so would require dismantling the fragile sandstone temples, stone by stone, and rebuilding |
0:31.7 | them on higher ground. |
0:33.1 | They were high up on cliffs, and you'd practically need a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle |
0:36.8 | just to access them. |
0:38.0 | Now this rescue effort did succeed, even though Egypt, France, and Britain strongly disliked |
0:43.1 | each other during this time, during the height of Cold War tensions, and this entire effort |
0:46.8 | was made possible by a Guetzy French archaeologist by the name of Christian Derroche Nobelcourt. |
0:52.0 | She was something of her real life Indiana Jones. |
0:54.2 | She was a member of the French Resistance in World War II, and survived imprisonment |
0:57.6 | by the Nazis, and also many incredible discoveries, such as the 4200-year-old tomb of Lady |
1:02.9 | Szecheset, the wife of the chief government minister of Egypt. |
1:05.8 | In this episode, we're speaking to Lynn Olson, author of Empress of the Nile, the Derroche |
1:10.0 | archaeologist who saved Egypt's ancient temples. |
1:12.6 | We look at how antiquities have been, unfortunately, destroyed and plundered for millennia, and |
1:17.3 | it's really only due to their heroic efforts of a few individuals, like the Eroschnobel |
1:21.2 | Quart that they aren't destroyed, and how she preserved a crucial part of Egypt's cultural |
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