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 ...

The construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s threatened to destroy several ancient Nubian monuments located further upstream. In response, UNESCO led an international effort to disassemble, ...

UNESCO launched an international safeguarding campaign to save monuments in Nubia from being flooded by the waters of Lake Nasser. The construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt drew unprecedented ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...