The Smith Inst lost b/c the committee said that the stones......here in DC......would discomboble, due to the hot, humid summers of DC swamps......like right now........and frigid winters........the SI wanted to have it outside.....it would have never lasted its age, like 2000 years old, decided the committee and they gave it to NYC

A gift from a Muslim country.........to us, the USA..

Fifty years ago, on April 28, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a letter that officially awarded the Temple of Dendur to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. More than a decade later, on September 27, 1978, the Temple of Dendur opened to the public, allowing generations of museumgoers the opportunity to enjoy this monument in its new setting as an example of a small but traditional Egyptian temple.