Fifty years after Nile River flooding was brought under control by the Aswan High Dam, the billion-dollar project is still revered as a fountain of life – generating huge amounts of ...

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.

Half a century since Egypt's ground-breaking Aswan dam was inaugurated with much fanfare, harnessing the Nile for hydropower and irrigation, the giant barrier is still criticised for its human and ...

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 ...

agricultural and financial compensations following the establishment of the Aswan High Dam and Aswan Reservoir between 1960 and 1970, said The National Committee for Dispersing Compensations for ...

Egypt's prime minister attends a celebration at the Cairo Opera House for the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Aswan High Dam Celebrating the 50th anniversary on the building of the ...

The Aswan Dam was a crucial construction project for Egypt after the 1952 revolution. President Gamal Abdel Nasser was looking to elevate Egypt as the leader of a pan-Arab unity movement.

In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. We look at the cost of the dam on the region's people and antiquities. Show more In July 1970 ...