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  2. Aswan - Wikipedia

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    Aswan is the ancient city of Swenett, later known as Syene, which in antiquity was the frontier town of Ancient Egypt facing the south. Swenett is supposed to have derived its name from an Egyptian goddess with the same name. [ 10 ] This goddess later was identified as Eileithyia by the Greeks and Lucina by the Romans during their occupation of ...

  3. Unfinished obelisk - Wikipedia

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    The unfinished obelisk is the largest known ancient obelisk [citation needed] and is located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan, Egypt. It was studied in detail by Reginald Engelbach in 1922. [1] The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990. The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO ...

  4. El Nabatat Island - Wikipedia

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    El Nabatat Island is one of two major islands on the Nile in vicinity of Aswan, the other one being Elephantine. Elephantine is the larger one, and is located between El Nabatat Island and the city of Aswan (east bank). Therefore, it can be hard to see the smaller El Nabatat Island from Aswan: "Aswan disappears behind Elephantine Island". [6 ...

  5. Nubian Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Nubian Museum. The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in Aswan, Upper Egypt.It was built following the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, to a design by architect Mahmoud El-Hakim for an estimated construction cost of E£75 million (approximately US$22 million at the time).

  6. Aswan Dam - Wikipedia

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    Installed capacity. 2,100 MW (2,800,000 hp) Annual generation. 10,042 GWh (2004) [1] The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the 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 ...

  7. Old Cataract Hotel - Wikipedia

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    Developer. Thomas Cook. The Old Cataract Aswan Hotel, commonly known as the Old Cataract Hotel, is a historic British colonial-era hotel located on the banks of the River Nile in Aswan, Egypt. It was built in 1899 by Thomas Cook and opened under the name Cataract Hotel. In 1961 the hotel was expanded with the addition of a new tower wing ...

  8. Temple of Kalabsha - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  9. International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia

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    Arab States. The International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia was the effort to relocate 22 monuments in Lower Nubia, in Southern Egypt and northern Sudan, between 1960 and 1980. This was done in order to make way for the building of the Aswan Dam, at the Nile's first cataract (shallow rapids), a project launched following the 1952 ...

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