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The building of the Aswan High Dam brought a flood of renewed salvage archaeology to Lower Nubia in the 1960s, ...came about at the beginning of the 21st century, when the so-called Merowe Dam was constructed at the Fourth Cataract. This salvage campaign is now also c ...

...Moreover, through most of Nubia, the Nile does not regularly overflow its high banks during the flood season, and water for irrigation must always be rais ...length lies beneath the waters of Lake Nasser, impounded by the Aswan High Dam. ...

Despite Faras's submersion following the building of the [[Aswan High Dam]], the see is still claimed by the Coptic church's Titular Bishop of the Gr ...

...ā' ad-din al-Baalbaki (''al-Ba'labakkī'') with a numerous army to march on Aswan, but the slaves had already left: he, together with Kanz ed-Dawla, went in ...d the fortress of Ibrīm, and took prisoners and booty and then returned to Aswan. He gave Ibrīm in fief to a man called Ibrahīm al-Kurdī. He occupied the pl ...

...achari». Evidence of a new Nubian king from the Monastery of St. Simeon at Aswan<nowiki>’</nowiki>, ''Beiträge zur Sudanforschung'' 8, pp. 31–9. Jakobielski, S. – J. van der Vliet, 2011, ‘From Aswan to Dongola: The epitaph of Bishop Joseph (died AD 668)’, [in:] A. Łajtar – ...