The Nile in Flood near the Giza Pyramids, 1927 For millennia before the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970, the Nile flooded yearly, inundating acres of land, often up to the edge of the Giza Plateau.

The Nile in Flood near the Giza Pyramids, 1927 For millennia before the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970, the Nile flooded yearly, inundating acres of land, often up to the edge of the Giza Plateau.