After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

Originally published as Why Aswan, Egypt Should Be on Your Bucket List on GoWorldTravel.com While Cairo and Luxor dominate much of the conversation about Egypt’s ancient wonders, it’s Aswan, Egypt’s ...

Tourism, climate change, redevelopment and nature threaten the existence of some of the world’s most amazing sites, but – ...

The most famous of the monuments affected by the Aswan High Dam Project was the temple complex on the island of Philae. Sacred to the goddess Isis, the sanctuary dates mostly to the Graeco-Roman ...

Egypt’s Nubians were displaced several times throughout the 20th century: with the building of the dam by the British in 1902, and when its height was raised on two different occasions in 1912 and ...

Before the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the area that the lake now occupies was a significant part of the region of Nubia, home to several pharaohs of Egypt and empires including the Kush ...

Don’t miss The island of Philae, 10 kilometres upstream from Aswan on an artificial lake created by a dam. The Temple of Isis and another dedicated to Hathor might be Egypt’s most romantic ...

When the Aswan High Dam was created in the 1960s, the waters submerged many features of Egypt's ancient past. Now, archaeologists have documented some of these lost secrets.

The team of Egyptian-French archeologists has been exploring areas that were flooded following the completion of the Aswan High Dam.

WHEN it was decided to heighten the Aswân Dam, the Egyptian Government also made provision for the thorough examination of the whole tract of country that would be immersed in the enlarged ...