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Aswan High Dam |
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Aswan High DamDam across the Nile River, north of Aswan, Egypt. Built 4 mi (6 km) upstream from the earlier Aswan Dam (1902), it is 364 ft (111 m) high and 12,562 ft (3,830 m) long. Differences with Gamal Abdel Nasser led the U.S. and Britain to withdraw their financial support of the project in 1956, whereupon Nasser turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. The dam, completed in 1970, impounds the reservoir Lake Nasser and controls the annual Nile flood, releasing floodwaters when needed for irrigation; it also enables the production of great amounts of electric power. Its construction necessitated the relocation of the ancient Abu Simbel ruins. |
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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. 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. 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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