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The Aswan Dam, or Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. When it was completed, it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, surpassing the Chatuge Dam in the United States. [ 2 ]
Aswan High Dam. The construction of the Aswan High Dam began in 1960 at the behest of Lake Nasser's namesake and the second president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was President Anwar Sadat who inaugurated the lake and dam in 1971. [8] Finished in 1970, the Aswan High Dam across the Nile was built to replace the insufficient Aswan Low Dam ...
English: The 2100 MW Aswan High Dam is world's largest embankment dam, 4000 metres (13000 ft) long, 980 m (3220 ft) wide at the base, and 111 m (364 ft) tall. Aswan ...
The Aswan High Dam, constructed in Egypt in 1964–1968, created Lake Nasser. It was designed with a maximum water level of 183 metres (600 ft) above sea level . As a precaution against any unexpected rise in Lake Nasser's water level, a spillway and channel were built in 1978.
First in 1902 due to the construction of the Aswan Lower Dam, then in both 1912 and 1933 due to the rising water levels, and a fourth time after the creation of the Aswan High Dam. The forced relocation stripped many native Nubians of their ancestral homelands, with the compensation of unsuitable homes for living and agriculture.
The Philae temple complex (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic:, Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ' or 'pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ, [1] [2] Coptic pronunciation: [ˈpilɑk, ˈpilɑkh]) is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.
Aswan High Dam: Aswan : Embankment 2,100 1970 Aswan Low Dam: Aswan: Gravity 592 1960 Nag Hammadi Dam: Qena: Gravity 64 2008 Nuclear. Name Operator Governorate
The temple was moved to a site, located just south of the Aswan High Dam. The process of moving the temple took more than two years. [ 4 ] The temple of Kalabsha was the largest free-standing temple of Egyptian Nubia (after Abu Simbel , which was rock-cut , not free-standing) to be moved and erected at a new site. [ 12 ]