The Israeli website Nziv stirred controversy by describing a hypothetical attack on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. This prompted a strong and immediate response from Egyptian politicians ...

In 1970, they completed the Aswan High Dam, which stretches across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual floods by trapping its waters in a ...

When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO tried but failed to recover artifacts that were swept away when water submerged the region along the river.

The Nubian people, indigenous to southern Egypt and northern Sudan, have a unique heritage characterized by distinct ...

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of muddy water backed up by the High Dam being built at Aswan 180 miles downstream. Up the Cliff. Many schemes have been proposed to save Abu Simbel. The simplest one, advanced by French engineers ...

The construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt drew unprecedented international attention to the protection of cultural heritage. At that time, many people thought they had to choose between culture ...

In 1959, this magnificent relic risked annihilation. Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture and power supply. The resulting reservoir lake would drown the area’s ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks water to create a human-made lake called a reservoir. Dams can be used to produce ...