Today's lesson focused on the site of Abu Simbel and building the Aswan High Dam. Mercer read material detailing the Aswan Damn as one of Egypt's most recognizable ancient sites. He learned about the details of how it sat on the west bank of the Nile River, between the first and second cataracts of Nile, the original site was later dismantled and rebuilt on a higher hill to make way for the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s. Mercer spent the remainder of the class reviewing fun facts about rivers and bodies of water near Mesopotamia. Mercer was on task.