Whereas other Nubian monuments were merely relocated to higher land, the Temple of Dendur traveled all the way to the United States. It was handed to the United States by the Egyptian state in appreciation for its assistance in saving the other Nubian structures that would have been submerged underneath the waters of Lake Nasser. The temple's 642 blocks, totaling more than 800 tons in weight, with the heaviest stones weighing more than 6.5 tons, were brought to the United States for roughly 9.5 million dollars.