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 ...

The Israeli website Nziv stirred controversy by describing a hypothetical attack on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt. This prompted a strong and immediate response from Egyptian politicians ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

The billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt’s history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create ...

During a diving expedition in the Nile River, archaeologists in Egypt discovered rock carvings featuring depictions of several ancient Egyptian pharaohs, along with hieroglyphic inscriptions.

THE Suez Canal, being an artificially created body of water, is not in stable equilibrium with the surrounding seas. A continuous effort has to be made to keep the canal in working order, and ...

The diving expedition was conducted as part of ongoing efforts to identify and record archaeological sites of interest that were flooded during the building of the Aswan High Dam, the billion ...

in an area that was flooded during the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Built between 1960 and 1970, it is one of the world’s largest embankment dams, tasked with regulating the flow and ...

DURING the course of a recent investigation of the current regime in the Suez Canal, an unusual distribution of salinity was observed along the Canal in September 1966. Comparison with older data ...

Nile water is also used to fill Lake Nasser, the reservoir for Egypt's own hydro-electric power plant, the Aswan High Dam. Sudan, with a population of 48 million people, is also heavily reliant on ...