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visited. What is impressive is the lake it created. Lake Visitors scamper over and ancient
Nasser is a massive 800,000 acres stretching over quarry with an abandon obelisk that
340 miles and into Sudan where it is called Lake would have been the largest in the
Nubia. Like other human-made lakes around the world if it hadn’t cracked.
world, the land flooded significantly displaced people
and wildlife. But it succeeded in taming the feasts
and famines caused by Nile flooding, bringing irriga-
tion to nearly a million acres of land and converting
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