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Dams in Egypt · Mysteria

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Walls thrown across a valley to hold back a season's water.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Sadd el-Kafara North Embankment Wadi Garawi

Old Kingdom · 4th Dynasty Egypt (Sneferu to Khufu horizon)

North wing 55 m of world's oldest large dam (Old Kingdom) breached during construction.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Aswan Old Dam South Spillway

British-Egyptian Modern with Pharaonic quarry context · British-Egyptian engineers (Willcocks, Benetti) on Pharaonic Nile

South spillway 350 m south of Aswan Low Dam with 58 buttress sluices on granite outcrop.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works

Aswan Old (Low) Dam North Spur — First Cataract Gravity Buttress

British colonial (Anglo-Egyptian) · Anglo-Egyptian, French engineers

1902 610-m gravity masonry 180-sluice Low Dam north spur 6 km above High Dam, world's largest masonry then.