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The Aswan High Dam
In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. We look at the cost of the dam on the region's people and antiquities.
In July 1970, one of the largest dams in the world - the Aswan High Dam in Egypt - was completed. It had taken ten years, and was not without controversy. Witness hears from the archives and from one man who was there, Professor Herman Bell, about the cost of the dam on the region's people and its antiquities.
(Photo: The Aswan High Dam under construction in southern Egypt in the 1960s. Credit: AFP)
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