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 ...

An Ethiopian dam the size of London, threatens to cause political turmoil in east Africa over fears it could deprive ...

The irony is Egypt did in the 1960s exactly what Ethiopia is doing today, when it built the Aswan High Dam. For a revolutionary post-colonial country it was a proud national achievement ...

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The poster-child for this harm has long been the High Aswan dam in Egypt, which holds back the river Nile, creating a 500km-long reservoir. Getty Images Lake Nasser, the reservoir created by the ...

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