The Russian Cultural Centre in Cairo marked the 66th anniversary of the Aswan High Dam’s foundation on Friday, with officials ...
The mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient ...
An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO ...
MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt (AP) — Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Now, former flood lands are green ...
The billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt’s history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create Lake ...
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They Had One Chance to Save 3,000 Years of History
When Egypt built the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s, it promised progress - but also posed a devastating threat to history. Rising waters from the Nile would have swallowed entire ancient temples, ...
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