He pauses and looks at me. “Everything changed after the British came to Egypt,” he says. In 1898, the British began the construction of the Aswan Low Dam, one of the largest such projects of ...

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 ...

For millennia, the city of Aswan has been the gateway between Egypt and the rest of Africa, and a vibrant trade center. Besides the massive dam that was completed here in 1970, it is best known ...

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 ...

as well as for being the gateway to the temples at Abu Simbel. The city has a kind of African magic that beguiles visitors from around the world. Aswan is just 300km from the Egypt-Sudan border ...

By The International Herald Tribune CAIRO, March 19 (U.P.).—King Farouk today laid the foundation stone of a new hydro-electric scheme at the Aswan Dam, in upper Egypt. The work which is ...

In the eyes of the Egyptian government, the loss of the treasures, while lamentable, was necessary: The Aswan High Dam was needed to boost agriculture and provide electricity for Egypt’s ...

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 ...