After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

East of the Temple of Amun Gereb, a Greek sanctuary dating back to the fifth century BCE and devoted to Aphrodite was also discovered, yielding vestiges of imported bronze and ceramic objects.

Further examinations have indicated that the column was possibly functioning as a Greek altar. If the assertions are true, ...