As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient ...

On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile would be controlled. The first blast, delivered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...

This week, the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan celebrates both its national day and the 58-year anniversary of the start of construction on the famous Aswan High Dam. The dam, a rock-filled structure ...

In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. We look at the cost of the dam on the region's people and antiquities.

Fifty years after Nile River flooding was brought under control by the Aswan High Dam, the billion-dollar project is still revered as a fountain of life – generating huge amounts of electricity ...

On January 9, 1960 work began on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. Historian John Schmidt will explain how the dam's construction stirred Cold War tensions and how an unlikely heroine ended up saving ...

JULY 21, 1970: The colossal Aswan Dam and the 340-mile-long manmade Lake Nasser were finally completed in Egypt after a decade of building on this day in 1970. The 12,500ft-long dam, which cost ...

File Photo: An aerial view of the River Nile valley pictured through the window of an airplane on a flight between Cairo and Luxor, Egypt taken on April 11, 2021.

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