The construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s threatened to destroy several ancient Nubian monuments located further upstream. In response, UNESCO led an international effort to disassemble, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Because the Aswan Dam traps 98% of the river's rich sediments ... to eradicate flooding of the Mississippi—or any other river. Photos: (2) NASA; (3) WGBH Educational Foundation.

Finally, the Nile reaches Egypt. After passing through Egypt’s own enormous dam at Aswan — only half as powerful as Ethiopia’s — the waters nourish 800 miles of densely populated farmland ...

Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal on Sunday assured that there are no cholera cases in the areas of Abu al-Rish and Daraw, refuting rumors being spread online. During an interview with Ahmed Moussa’s TV ...

During the filling process, Egypt can compensate for a loss of water by releasing more from the High Aswan Dam, but the concern comes once the Gerd is fully operational. Reuters Sudan and Egypt ...

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“They weren’t able to do this at the Aswan Dam in Egypt,” he tells me, noting that Egyptian authorities had to move relics before they were flooded. “It makes me proud. I don’t have any ...

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