Aswan Dam-Egypt The Egyptians wanted to control the annual flooding of the Nile and to generate electrical power. As a result, in 1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, decided to build a high dam at Aswan. The dam would bring benefits, but it would also create a huge lake that would flood all of Lower Nubia and the northern part of the Sudan. The people who lived there would have to leave their ancestral lands, and many archaeological sites of ancient Nubia would be destroyed. As the waters rose, over 100,000 people were resettled elsewhere, and a huge international effort began to rescue the most important ancient temples and archaeological treasures before they were lost forever. |
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