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1960s, Egypt, Nile River, educational films, Sahara, Egypt on map with Nile River and cultivated areas and Nile Delta, cultivated strip of land alongside Nile and desert beyond, traditional irrigation methods, shaduf, shadoof, double shaduf, saqiyah, sakia, Archimedes' screw, rows of crop fields being individually irrigated, man leading pack camel on road lined by fertile fields, Giza Plateau, Pyramids, Great Sphinx of Giza, flooding of the Nile, soot, farmers sowing wet soil with crops, Aswan Dam, Aswan Low Dam, reservoir, barrages, network of irrigation canals, feluccas on Nile, Cairo cityscape and bridges over Nile, Alexandria, port activity, cargo ships, boats passing through locks, Aswan sluice gate being opened to allow flood waters to pass, submerged Philae Temple, site of Aswan High Dam, hydroelectric power station, linemen constructing transmission towers and power lines across desert, archeological sites, pharaoh statues, saqiyah, sakia, fertile irrigated fields |