High Dam

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High Dam - one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt

Aswan High Dam

Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, United Arab Republic - a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC

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When plans to build the Aswan High Dam made it clear that Toshka and much of ancient Nubia would be forever under water, El Din set out to preserve Nubian culture through collecting its songs, traveling by donkey throughout Upper Egypt.

Hamza El Din by Horton, Matt / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

The Nubian Museum at Aswan in Egypt was set up to salvage and display artefacts that would have been inundated when Lake Nasser filled the valley after construction of the notorious High Dam in the 1960s.

Cataract vision: The ideas behind this museum, built to celebrate the ... by The Architectural Review

The Unesco's first campaign raised US$80 million to save Egyptian pyramids from flooding by the Aswan High Dam in 1959.

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