According to a UNESCO report, Aswan was the commercial hub for convoys traveling to and from Nubia, with its historical ties to the Nubian Kings who ruled the city for thousands of years.

The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae lie in the Governorate of Aswan. It is a serial property of ten component parts covering 374.48 ha: Abu Simbel, Amada, Wadi Sebua, Kalabsha, Philae ...

The Supreme Council of Antiquities is revamping Aswan and Nuian Museums, restoring historic structures and updating ...

Osama Abdel Meguid, Director of the Nubian Museum in Aswan. The Kushites were first based in Kerma, and then at Napata - both towns in what is now northern Sudan. Kerma was an advanced society and ...

and his team who were battling the rising waters building up behind the newly completed Aswan Low Dam. The fact the area was flooded by the end of the excavation demonstrates the historical importance ...

In 1964, the Egyptian government forcibly displaced thousands of Nubians from their homes in southern Egypt, to build the Aswan High Dam which caused the flooding of several Nubian villages and ...

The sun aligned on the statue of Ramses II in Aswan's Abu Simbel Temple on Saturday morning in ... The main temple at Abu Simbel, which Ramses ordered to be built near the border of Nubia and Upper ...