West Suhail Village in Aswan and Abu Ghosoun Village in the Red Sea have been recognized by UN Tourism as two of the Best ...

Located in the desert sands near the Nile in modern Sudan, the ancient culture of Nubia played a decisive role in shaping Egypt from the ... attacked Roman troops in Aswan—the most southerly ...

The Aswan and Red Sea villages have been praised for their sustainable tourism, cultural heritage and community focus.

Before the construction of the Aswan High Dam, the area that the lake now occupies was a significant part of the region of Nubia, home to several pharaohs of Egypt and empires including the Kush ...

In 1964, the Egyptian government forcibly displaced thousands of Nubians from their homes in southern Egypt, to build the Aswan High Dam which caused the flooding of several Nubian villages and ...

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