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Nubian Museum

Museum

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The Nubian Museum is an archaeological museum in Aswan, Upper Egypt. It was built following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. Nubian Museum is situated 250 metres south of Sofitel Old Cataract Aswan.

Elephantine

Island

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Elephantine is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae".

Aswan Museum

Museum

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Aswan Museum is a museum in Elephantine, located on the south-eastern side of Aswan, Egypt. It was set up in 1912 by the British Egyptologist Cecil Mallaby Firth. Aswan Museum is situated 470 metres northwest of Sofitel Old Cataract Aswan.

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Aswan

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Aswan is the southernmost city of Egypt, some 870 km south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, with a population of 275,000. Aswan is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor.

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