Lake Nasser

dam in Aswan, Egypt

UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Egypt

reservoir in Southern Egypt

city in Northern state, Sudan

fresh water lakes in Egypt

geographical object

thumb|Mirgissa, the ancient Egyptian Fortress in Wadi Halfa territory, before it drowned because of the Egyptian high dam thumb|right|Map of Mirgissa Mirgissa (originally Iken) was a settlement in Northern state, Sudan. Situated at the 2nd cataract in Wadi Halfa, it contained one of the largest fortresses in Nubia. In the time of Thutmose II, 250 to 450 people inhabited the area. The first European explorer was English geologist Sir Henry George Lyons in 1892, and was excavated without Sudanese permission, by the French Egyptologist Jean Vercoutter from 1962 to 1969. In addition to the fort, e

Dabenarti is an island in Sudan, situated in the middle of the Nile near the Second Cataract. It is close to Mirgissa, from its east wall, and about south of the Buhen fortress. A fortress on the island was attributed to the Egyptian Nubian period. Construction began during the reign of Senusret I, around 1900 BC, and was completed under Senusret III. Landing at the island fort, measuring in size, was difficult, and it was never completed. With the collapse of Egyptian power at the end of the Middle Kingdom, Dabenarti was abandoned around 1700 BC. It was examined in 1916 by Somers Clarke.

thumb|A map of 19th-century rail and caravan routes in Sudanincluding Koroskofrom Winston Churchill|Churchill's 1899 River War.