The Arab-Soviet friendship memorial erected in 1970 to commemorate the  construction of Aswan High Dam is underrated and a must-see.  It is shaped as a five petal lotus flower, some petals decorated with murals and carvings and some containing trapezoid-shaped elevators in a surprisingly robust condition. These can take you to the toppety top; the ride comes at an extra cost as everything in Egypt.  The panorama is great and one can see both the dam and Lake Nasser.   Both are of significance and helped change the course of history in many ways,  some intentional (such as solving a millennia-old problem of the Nile flooding and droughts, providing cheap electricity and pharaonic legacy for President Nasser), some unintentional (such as the nationalisation of the Suez Canal and the ensuing wars as well as the creation of the UNESCO’s world heritage programme, which sprouted following the salvaging of 22 monuments threatened by flooding of Nasser lake basin).  Not far there is a complex where the Soviet engineers lived during the dam construction in 1960-70, the buildings are the desert version of khrushevkas (5 story projects built during Nikita Krushev’s leadership in the USSR in the 1960s).  One of the monuments saved by UNESCO was the Philae temple re-located to the island between the High and Old dams, it is a part of most tourist itineraries, and you will not miss it. 

Nile Pop website has a story on the lost-and-found movie about Aswan High Dam construction by Youssef Chahine: https://nilepop.bridginghumanities.com/amal-guermazi-nile-aswan-high-dam-youssef-chahines-cinema/

There are also worthy essays on the impact of High Dam construction on the lives of people of the Nile. As we drove from Aswan to Luxor, we passed by the villages of the relocated Nubians near Komombo temple. It was sugar cane harvest time.