The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

Created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam between 1960 and 1970, it is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world. The lake is some 298 miles long and 9.9 miles across at its widest ...

When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO tried but failed to recover artifacts that were ...