The Aswan High Dam was not the first dam to be built across the Nile at Aswan. In 1898, the British occupation authorities built a dam at roughly the same location.

It was the dream of Egypt's pan-Arab nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam 50 years ago came at a big cost. Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15 ...

The Aswan High Dam is 111 metres high and holds back the Lake Nasser reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world by volume In the mid-1950s, the Egyptian authorities decided to build a ...

But the 111-metre-high and 3.6-kilometre-wide Aswan High Dam, dwarfing the far smaller Aswan Low Dam built under British rule in 1902, crucially gave Cairo power to regulate the flow.

Aswan High Dam. A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made ...

The day after the Aswan communique was issued, Moscow Radio announced that the Soviet Union was granting Egypt “scientific and technical assistance for the creation of a nuclear physics ...

In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. It had taken ten years, and was not without controversy.

It was the dream of Egypt's pan-Arab nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser, but the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam 50 years ago came at a big cost. Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15 ...