Egypt
The Aswan damn of the 1960's created a new lake and drowned the original sites of more than two dozen ancient monuments while completely drowning the Nile's less impressive architectural monuments such as a number of mud brick middle kingdom forts.
The damn with its twelve generators have created massive amounts of needed electricity as well as mitigating floods and droughts since its completion in 1970. As expected however going on forty years the damn is silting up, these silts used to go down river to stabilize the coast of the Nile delta. Along with the silt came the nutrients which used to attract a now dying fishery on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.
It may now be time to undue damages before they get worse but I know that's just crazy talk.
Perhaps moving the Abu Simbel temples again to raise the damn still further higher is only as crazy as erecting the damn in the first place.
No simple solutions !
- Travel: Egyptian Passage
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- Travel: Lake Nasser
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- Rebuilding Abu Simbel
The saving and reconstruction of both Rameses the greats temples at Abu Simbel required five years and $40 million. Begun on November 16 1963 the first of the 1,041 blocks was moved on may 21, 1965 while the first block to be laid at the new site was...
- Lost Civilization
Fifty years after the high damn was built and the monuments were removed to higher ground the loss was to the many people who's ancestral homes were drowned beneath lake Nasser. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7963042.stm...
- Flooding Meroe
Another rescue operation is taking place in the kingdom of Meroe before the new damn at the fourth cataract floods the ancient kingdom. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/925/heritage.htm...
Egypt
With the rise of lake Nasser: 40 years later
The Aswan damn of the 1960's created a new lake and drowned the original sites of more than two dozen ancient monuments while completely drowning the Nile's less impressive architectural monuments such as a number of mud brick middle kingdom forts.
The damn with its twelve generators have created massive amounts of needed electricity as well as mitigating floods and droughts since its completion in 1970. As expected however going on forty years the damn is silting up, these silts used to go down river to stabilize the coast of the Nile delta. Along with the silt came the nutrients which used to attract a now dying fishery on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.
It may now be time to undue damages before they get worse but I know that's just crazy talk.
Perhaps moving the Abu Simbel temples again to raise the damn still further higher is only as crazy as erecting the damn in the first place.
No simple solutions !
- Travel: Egyptian Passage
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- Travel: Lake Nasser
canada.com (Peter Wilson) For those wanting a quieter stretch of Nile cruising, a three- or four-night cruise on Lake Nasser is the perfect way to discover the wonders of ancient Egypt. The world's largest man-made lake, Lake Nasser was formed by...
- Rebuilding Abu Simbel
The saving and reconstruction of both Rameses the greats temples at Abu Simbel required five years and $40 million. Begun on November 16 1963 the first of the 1,041 blocks was moved on may 21, 1965 while the first block to be laid at the new site was...
- Lost Civilization
Fifty years after the high damn was built and the monuments were removed to higher ground the loss was to the many people who's ancestral homes were drowned beneath lake Nasser. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7963042.stm...
- Flooding Meroe
Another rescue operation is taking place in the kingdom of Meroe before the new damn at the fourth cataract floods the ancient kingdom. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/925/heritage.htm...