What do a 3,000-year-old Egyptian temple, the London Bridge, a 200-foot lighthouse, and an entire Swedish mining town have in common? They were all picked up and moved.
This week, Jeremy and Amy dig into the true stories behind history’s most audacious relocations: how UNESCO cut Abu Simbel into massive blocks and rebuilt it on higher ground to escape the flooding of the Aswan Dam; how the London Bridge ended up spanning a channel in Lake Havasu City, Arizona; how engineers moved the 4,800-ton Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 2,900 feet inland to save it from the sea; and how Kiruna, Sweden is in the middle of a decades-long move — church, homes and all — because the ground beneath it is literally collapsing.
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