This week, the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan celebrates both its national day and the 58-year anniversary of the start of construction on the famous Aswan High Dam. The dam, a rock-filled structure ...

The Aswan governorate on Saturday 11/1/2025 marks the 65th anniversary of laying the foundation stone of the High Dam in January 1960. Aswan Governor Ismail Kamal thanked the builders of the dam, ...

Still, the threat served him well. Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $ ...

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 controlled. The first blast, delivered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser ...