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“Thank you,” she said “We’ll look forward to seeing you later”

Dirk loaded their dive bags into the boat and cranked on the outboard motor Su a seat on the bow as Dirk guided the boat out of the small cove

He briefly turned the boat north, hugging the eastern shore to take in the view of one of Egypt’sthe water was the Te four colossal statues of the seated Pharaoh Ramses II

“It’s quite i the scale of the statues co about their base like ants

“Equally impressive,” Dirk said, “is that they were relocated here in the 1960s fro with twenty-three other important temples and monuh Dam”

“Too bad our Faras temple was one of the victims”

Dirk looped the boat around to the south and opened the throttle Leaving Abu Simbel, they motored into a barren stretch of the lake that stretched for fifty miles to Sudan

Dirk reached into his dive bag and powered on a GPS unit he had purchased in Assiut He’d already entered the coordinates of the Faras temple provided by Max and steered toward the point a dozen h the waves, Summer assembled their dive kits and confirmed the borrowed air tanks were topped off

Reaching the designated location a half hour later, Dirk positioned the boat over the coordinates, and Summer released an anchor off the bow She let the rope slip through her hands,the line as it went When the line went slack, she tied it off to a cleat and turned to Dirk “Looks to be about seventy-five feet We got lucky”

“Our real luck will be if we can find any remains of the temple”

Despite a surface water teht wetsuits since it would be considerably cooler at the bottom Before they donned their tanks, Dirk pulled a sheet of paper fro and showed it to Summer

“Hirae of Faras from the 1890s It identifies the layout of the te materials had been dismantled for reuse, but the

re were still remnants of the temple and a notable shrine wall The fortress around it was quite a large structure The renificant, so we should be able to see those The temple was at the northernmost end of the fortress and contained a small sanctuary”

Su more than a needle in a haystack If we can locate the te the Tutankhamun shrine and its description of the Faras apium”

“The early British archeologists placed it in the sanctuary Let’s see if Max put us close”