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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...