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

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 ...

Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, hailing it as the "greatest" engineering project in the 20th century. He added that Aswan has become the capital of solar energy and a ...

The Aswan High Dam Reservoir is one of the world's largest water reservoir and suffers from high water evaporation rates due to the region's very hot and dry climate. Floating PV installations may ...

The risks to Egyptian users and energy generation can be minimized through combinations of sufficient agreed annual releases from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, a drought management policy for ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile ...

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

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 ...