View of great Temple of Abu Simbel, threatened by the building of the Aswan Dam first proposed by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1952 to facilitate navigation on the River Nile, to generate electricity and to supply water for the irrigation of new farmland.

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Le barrage d'Assouan. Assouan: Keystone. Noir et blanc.

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