In 1970, the high dam wiped off Low-Nubia from the face of the earth definitively, obliging some 60 000 people to give up their villages installed on the edges of the Nile. Transfered to the North of Aswan, each family received a housing, a small patch of land and a monthly revenue during one year. Considered for their great honesty, numbers of them work in Cairo or Alexandria as doormen, domestic employees or cooks.