Cairo - The Egyptian government has given the green light to move a 2,500-year-old temple to another site in the western desert to save it from corrosive underground water, officials said.
Workers will next week start transferring the base of temple Amun, its columns and walls 300 metres north of its location at Hibis in the Kharga oasis, the antiquities chief, Mr Gaballah Ali Gaballah, said.