When at the dam, one should consider visiting the nearby Abu Simbel temples on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about 230km southwest of Aswan. One can also visit Aswan's Kom Ombo temple ...

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.

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 ...

On the west bank, you can visit the ruined Monastery of St Simeon and mausoleum of Aga Khan III. The island of Philae, 10 kilometres upstream from Aswan on an artificial lake created by a dam.

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 ...

Built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970, the world's biggest embankment dam was designed by the Moscow-based Hydroproject Institute. Borisenko made the comparison during a visit ...

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.