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Assuan - View of the great dam across the Nile, a mile and a quarter in length, planned and carried out by British engineers. It was opened in 1902, and was made higher in 1912. The Aswan Low Dam or Old Aswan Dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. The dam was built by the British at the former first cataract of the Nile, and is located about 1000 km up-river and 690 km south-southeast of Cairo.