Aswan

 

The Aswan Dam was built to regulate the flow of the Nile and so increase Egypt ’s cultivable land and provide hydro- electric power. However, it soon proved too small to control the river’s unpredictable floods. President Nasser’s solution was the construction of the High Dam.

                                    

                            

                            

                           

                          

Russian - Egyptian Friendship Monument 

for Building Aswan Dam

                        

                      

2,000+ Year Old Cemetary