When he unrolled the plans for acting college archivist Marianne LaBatto, "it was like he was opening up the blueprints to the losttemple of Jerusalem, " Ms. LaBatto said.
Over the centuries both the Nile and the desert sands imperceptibly shifted, and this temple was lost to the world until 1813, when it was accidentally rediscovered by the Swiss explorer Jean-Louis Burckhardt.