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The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is the world`s largest embankment dam, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan Low Dam initially completed in 1902 downstream.