Unfortunately, Aswan was flooded following the construction of the Aswan High Dam between 1960 and 1970 ... hub for convoys traveling to and from Nubia, with its historical ties to the Nubian ...

Still, the threat served him well. Last week in Cairo, Premier Nasser and World Bank President Black sat down to take another look at the Aswan dam project. Nasser settled for roughly half the $ ...

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The start of construction of the Aswan dam in 1960 and the subsequent expansion of Lake Nasser ... Service with funding from the National Science Foundation. Four sites in Nubia -Wadi Karagan, Awandi, ...

Summary of previous deliberations: Not applicable except the following history of the International Safeguarding Campaign 1960’ – 1970’ for information: The Campaign was launched to safeguard the site ...

For thousands of years, the sitting figure of Ramses II watched over the Nile, till the construction of the Aswan dam threatened to drown the ancient temple under the waters of the river. In an ...

In 1964, the Egyptian government forcibly displaced thousands of Nubians from their homes in southern Egypt, to build the Aswan High Dam which caused the flooding of several Nubian villages and ...

Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture and power supply ... Egypt and its neighbour Sudan asked UNESCO for help to safeguard their precious Nubian heritage. This is ...