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Aswan High Dam
The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.
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The massive man-made lake home to 10,000 crocodiles that spans across two huge nations
Created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam between 1960 and 1970, it is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. The lake is some 298 miles long and 9.9 miles across at its widest ...
Archaeologists Dove Beneath the Nile and Found a Surprise: Traces of Ancient Pharaohs
When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO tried but failed to recover artifacts that were ...
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The spectacular failures and successes of massive dams
The poster-child for this harm has long been the High Aswan dam in Egypt, which holds back the river Nile, creating a 500km-long reservoir. Getty Images Lake Nasser, the reservoir created by the ...
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Stunning display in Egypt! Sun illuminates Ramses II statute at Aswan's Abu Simbel Temple
The sun rays once again penetrated the entrance of Aswan's iconic Abu Simbel Temple ... of Lake Nasser after the construction of the High Dam. Despite this monumental relocation effort, the ...