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ASWAN & THE

TEMPLE OF ISIS

Our first stop in Aswan the next morning was the the potential for an attack on the dam. A security
ancient quarry that furnished much of the stone for officer joined our group as we toured the quarry and
temples and obelisks throughout Egypt. It still is traveled by ferry to the Temple of Philae. And photog-
home to a massive unfinished obelisk, that would raphy was restricted as we approached the dam itself.
have been the largest in history. You can see the Building Aswan dam in the second half of the 20th
cracks that formed as it was being carved out of the century was a massive engineering feat, though the
side of a hill. structure itself is pretty ordinary looking, especially
Security in Aswan is tight and on high alert, given compared to Hoover Dam and other in China that we

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