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

Egypt’s railways on Monday launched a special train service for people from Sudan to return home, despite the conflict in their country. Train 1940 left Cairo on Monday morning, heading to Aswan, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

High water mark: Head of the USSR's Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny cuts the ribbon alongside Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (2nd R) at the inauguration of the Aswan High Dam, on January 15 ...

Despite the numerous benefits it brought, the Aswan High Dam also had negative side-effects. It increased the salt content of the soil used to grow food, holding back the rich silt that acted as a ...

Aswan High Dam: Nasser's dream, Nubian nightmare . Opened on the mighty Nile on January 15, 1971 with the help of the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, the dam was to generate ...

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 ...