EGYPT: A Yes for Aswan Dam. 2 minute read. TIME. February 20, 1956 12:00 AM GMT-5. ... Estimated cost of Nasser’s high dam: $1.5 billion. Even in international financing that is a lot of money.

Aswan High Dam. A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made ...

Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, hailing it as the "greatest" engineering project in the 20th century. He added that Aswan has become the capital of solar energy and a ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan ...

DURING the course of a recent investigation of the current regime in the Suez Canal, an unusual distribution of salinity was observed along the Canal in September 1966. Comparison with older data ...

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan in an area that was flooded when the Aswan High Dam was built between 1960 and 1970.

In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. It had taken ten years to build, and was not without controversy. Louise Hidalgo brings us voices ...

Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch The High Dam at Aswan (1992). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.

The Aswan governorate on Saturday 11/1/2025 marks the 65th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the High Dam in January 1960. Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, ...