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4 unusual facts about Lake Nasser


Ballana

The original Ballana cemetery is now flooded by the Nasser Lake.

Qasr Ibrim

It was originally a major city perched on a cliff above the Nile, but the flooding of Lake Nasser after the construction of the Aswan High Dam transformed it into an island and flooded its outskirts.

Tzitzis

Tzitzis - classical name for Qertassi, an ancient site, now submerged in Lake Nasser, in Lower Nubia, Egypt

William Y. Adams

Adams's work in Nubia began in 1959 as part of the UNESCO archaeological salvage campaign to excavate sites threatened by the rising flood waters of Lake Nasser following the construction of the Aswan Dam.



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