The day after the Aswan communique was issued, Moscow Radio announced that the Soviet Union was granting Egypt “scientific and technical assistance for the creation of a nuclear physics ...

Aswan High Dam A large dam on the Nile River in southern Egypt completed in 1970 which provides irrigation and electricity to most of Egypt and forms one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Aswan High Dam is 111 metres high and holds back the Lake Nasser reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world by volume In the mid-1950s, the Egyptian authorities decided to build a ...

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.

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 electricity ...

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. Full Glossary ...