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The High Dam High Dam To a Greek-Egyptian agifonomist, Andrian Dannios, must go credit for the idea of building a dam at Aswan so large that it could provide for long-term storage of water as well as protect against high and low floods. His concept was not, however, to take root until after the 1952 […]

Aga Khan Mausoleum  forty-eighth Imam (or leader) of the Ismaili sect of lslam, is another landmark of Aswan.         Aga Khan Mausoleum ,is not an historical monument, but it has gained considerable popular cultural appeal. The late Aga Khan (who claimed direct descent from Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad), used […]

Daraw Just to the south of`Kom Ombo is Daraw, the site ofa Tuesday camel market, The animals are brought in caravans all the way from Sudan along the Darb al-Arbain (‘f`orty-day road’)_ Mer- chants from Cairo send representatives to make purchases for the larger camel market in the Cairo suburb of lmbaba, where they are sold […]

Kom ombo ln early dynastic times Kom Ombo stood at the northern end of the border province of Aswan. Here is the physical division between the limestone belt of Egypt and the sandstone belt of  Nubia, and here is where a large part of the population of Lower Nubia are now relocated. It is also […]

New Nubia Resettlement Lower Nubia, the area lying between Aswan and the Second Cataract has traditionally been known as Egyptian Nubia, Sudanese New Nubia Resettlement. When the High Dam was built in the 19605, the whole of Lower Nubia was inundated, and its entire population was resettled: fifty thousand to Qasr al-Girba in northern Sudan and […]

Aswan practical information How to Get There Aswan practical information The trains from Cairo to Aswan run daily and take about sixteen hours. They are air-conditioned, have sleeping cars, and provide dinner, Traveling by air is quicker; the flight from Cairo takes about two hours, usually with a single stopover in Luxor. Cruises in the […]

Qasr Ibrim Riding above the waters of Lake Nasser, about fifteen kilometers north of Abu Simbel, is the island of Qasr Ibrim, all that remains of an important frontier post in Roman times, when it was still part of the mainland. Although accessible to visitors only by special arrangement, it is included here because it […]

Abu Simbel temple Abu Simbel temple and the neighboring temple built to his beloved wife Nefertari are among the most imposing structures in the world, There are few monuments that have attained such renown. Yet ironically they remained relatively unknown to the world until threatened by inundation from the waters of the High Dam . The Great […]

saving Abu Simbel temple saving Abu Simbel temple is one of the largest and most magnificent monuments of the ancient world. It is also an unusual one in not being a free-standing temple; its inner chambers were hewn out of the heart of a mountain. Aware that the building of the High Dam would result […]

Ramses II History Ramses II History  (c. 1290-1224 B.c.) was the second son of Seti 1, the Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh whose temples on the Theban necropoiis and at Abydos are well known. Ramses was born tkingship: ‘an inscription in his father’s mortuary temple at Abydos relates how he took the infant in his arms and […]