Lake Nasser

same language and worshipped many of the same gods more than five thousand years ago. The Nile no longer overflows its banks because modern Egyptians built a huge dam in Aswan. The Aswan High Dam was completed in 1970. It holds back water in Lake Nasser during the spring, and provides a reliable flow of water for Egyptian farmers in the dry season. The people of Egypt are now able to convert the predictable flow of the Nile into electricity. When the Aswan High Dam was first completed, it…