Lower Nubia is the northernmost part of
Nubia, downstream on the
Nile from Upper Nubia. Sometimes, it overlapped
Upper Egypt stretching to the
First and
Second Cataracts, so roughly until
Aswan. A great deal of Upper Egypt and Northern Lower Nubia were flooded with the construction of the
Aswan High Dam and the creation of
Lake Nasser. However the intensive archaeological work conducted prior to the flooding means that the history of the area is much better known than that of Upper Nubia. Its history is also known from its long relations with
Egypt.