Spanning across two north African countries - southern Egypt and northern Sudan - is the vast reservoir of Lake Nasser. Created by the construction of the Aswan High Dam between 1960 and 1970 ...

Lake Nasser. 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.

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 ...

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

On the classic seven-night Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan and back, the itinerary is largely the same whichever boat you ...