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 ...

The mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial ... World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $600 million ...

The river is formed by its two tributaries, the Blue Nile, originating from Lake Tana ... Today, as Egypt marks 50 years of the Aswan Dam, it is embroiled in stormy negotiations with Sudan and ...

After passing through Egypt’s own enormous dam at Aswan — only half as powerful ... put it in simpler terms: “The Nile River must not be monopolized by one state. For Egypt, the Nile water ...

The easy accessibility of Aswan to visitors sojourning at Cairo ... and the existence of that great engineering feat—the Nile dam—ensure the result of a constantly increasing stream of ...

In 1970, they completed the Aswan High Dam, which stretches across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual floods by trapping its waters in a ...

A tourist ship carrying 28 tourists of various nationalities on a Nile River cruise ran aground on Saturday in Aswan Governorate, southern Upper Egypt. The Aswan Operations Room received a ...

This was my final excursion before flying home after a week-long trip down the River Nile ... location would have been flooded by the Aswan High Dam (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) ‘When ...