According to a UNESCO report, Aswan was the commercial hub for convoys traveling to and from Nubia, with its historical ties to the Nubian Kings who ruled the city for thousands of years.

The Supreme Council of Antiquities is revamping Aswan and Nuian Museums, restoring historic structures and updating ...

and his team who were battling the rising waters building up behind the newly completed Aswan Low Dam. The fact the area was flooded by the end of the excavation demonstrates the historical importance ...

In 1964, the Egyptian government forcibly displaced thousands of Nubians from their homes in southern Egypt, to build the Aswan High Dam which caused the flooding of several Nubian villages and ...