Aswan Attractions
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Venue: Aswan When: Daily
Aswan, most famous for its proximity to the eponymous dam, has its share of architectural wonders to parade for the public.
Among the sights you may want to catch are the nearby Aswan high dam, constructed in the 1960s using more than 18 times as much material as the Great Pyramid of Khufu (!), along with its sister structure, the original dam built by the British between 1898 and 1912 and located six kilometres further down-river.
Near Aswan lies the tomb of Mohammed Aga Khan, who died in 1957 and not far from the simple but beautiful crypt structure lies the sixth-century monastery of St Simeon, another site worth seeing.
Other sights include the Temple of Isis, relocated in the late 1960s from the island of Philae to nearby Agilkia, in connection with the construction of the second Aswan dam. The well-preserved and beautiful temple dates from the Ptolemaic period.
If you're looking for a glimpse behind the curtains of the titanic labours of construction of Pharaonic Egypt, check out the unfinished obelisk lying in just outside Aswan, in a quarry of granite (Aswan was famous as a supplier of pink and gray granite for pharaonic construction enterprises). This juggernaut of a rock measures 137 feet in length and 14 feet at its widest. It was abandoned when it developed a crack in mid-carving.
Aswan, most famous for its proximity to the eponymous dam, has its share of architectural wonders to parade for the public.
Among the sights you may want to catch are the nearby Aswan high dam, constructed in the 1960s using more than 18 times as much material as the Great Pyramid of Khufu (!), along with its sister structure, the original dam built by the British between 1898 and 1912 and located six kilometres further down-river.
Near Aswan lies the tomb of Mohammed Aga Khan, who died in 1957 and not far from the simple but beautiful crypt structure lies the sixth-century monastery of St Simeon, another site worth seeing.
Other sights include the Temple of Isis, relocated in the late 1960s from the island of Philae to nearby Agilkia, in connection with the construction of the second Aswan dam. The well-preserved and beautiful temple dates from the Ptolemaic period.
If you're looking for a glimpse behind the curtains of the titanic labours of construction of Pharaonic Egypt, check out the unfinished obelisk lying in just outside Aswan, in a quarry of granite (Aswan was famous as a supplier of pink and gray granite for pharaonic construction enterprises). This juggernaut of a rock measures 137 feet in length and 14 feet at its widest. It was abandoned when it developed a crack in mid-carving.
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