The dam stores 160 billion cubic metres of water, and its reservoir stretches some 350km across southern Egypt and 150km into Sudan. The Aswan High Dam was not the first dam to be built across the ...

A large dam ... Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Nasser. The original Aswan Dam ...

A report by the committee stressed that the Aswan High Dam is ready to receive ... passing through Khartoum before reaching the Nasser Lake. Egypt took all necessary measures and completed maintenance ...

The island of Philae, 10 kilometres upstream from Aswan on an artificial lake created by a dam. The Temple of Isis and another dedicated to Hathor might be Egypt’s most romantic ruins ...

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 ...