Economic development is necessary if we want tosociety. There comes a time the old must give way to the new, and it is not possible to everything from our past as we move towards the future. Finding and keeping the right between progress and the protection of cultural sites be a big challenge.
Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great . In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and water to more farmers in the area. But the led to protests. Water from the dam would likely damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt's cultural . After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam, the government to the United Nations for help in 1959.
