The book touches upon the raising of the Aswan High Dam and Nubians’ collective nostalgia for a place that was lost through the story of a little Nubian girl, Zanooba, who finds three cowrie ...

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 ...

“Following the decision to build a new High Dam at Aswan in the early 1960s ... Egyptologist Marco Zecchi writes in his book "Abu Simbel, Aswan and the Nubian Temples" (White Star Publishers ...

AFP - French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, known for her books on art and history and for saving the Nubian temples from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam, has died at the age of 97 ...