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 ...

1. Which continent includes large areas known as Queen Maud Land and Marie Byrd Land? 2. The Carpathian and Balkan Mountains can be found on which continent? 3. The Aswan High Dam provides ...

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 ...

DURING the course of a recent investigation of the current regime in the Suez Canal, an unusual distribution of salinity was observed along the Canal in September 1966. Comparison with older data ...

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 sites near Aswan, Egypt, were submerged during the building of the Aswan High Dam. Photo courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. “For the first time, ...