As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 9, 1960, construction of the Aswan High Dam began in Egypt. It would be the first time flooding on the Nile ...

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 ...

T he billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt’s history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will ...

The Aswan High Dam Reservoir is one of the world's largest water reservoir and suffers from high water evaporation rates due to the region's very hot and dry climate. Floating PV installations may ...

The team of Egyptian-French archeologists has been exploring areas that were flooded following the completion of the Aswan High Dam. The artifacts, including paintings and miniatures, were ...

The underwater expedition took place at a site that was flooded during the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. Ella Feldman - Daily Correspondent. July 23, 2024. Get our newsletter!

A joint French-Egyptian team found the carvings underwater south of Aswan in an area that was flooded when the Aswan High Dam was built between 1960 and 1970.

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO ...