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SudanPlanet
Available in Italian and English. With reports, overviews and some great photos.
- Sudan Dams Appeal
Subject: Sudan Dams Appeal Vincent Rondot Former Director of French Unit/SFDAS President, International Society for Nubian Studies Paris, 2 February 2012 Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the International Society for Nubian Studies and its staff, please...
- Construction Machines Assist British Museum In Sudan
easier.com Two Iveco Eurocargo 4x4’s and two New Holland Construction machines, a backhoe loader and a crawler excavator, have played a crucial role in the success of an archaeology recovery project which has seen the British Museum working in conjunction...
- The Case Of The Merowe Dam In Sudan
BN Village (Prof. Manu Ampim) Two-part posting which shows exerpts from a report which is available for purchase. In August 2007, I visited the Sudan for two weeks to conduct field research near the Merowe Dam area in the country’s northern region....
- More Re Sudan Rescue Archaeology
"Archaeology teams in Sudan are working against the clock to rescue an entire swathe of Nile Valley heritage from the rising waters of a Chinese-built dam. The Merowe dam is a controversial hydro-electric project - one of the largest in Africa - being...
- Flooding Nubia - Again
http://tinyurl.com/c3plm (The Telegraph) An article highlighting the potential loss of irreplaceable archaeological riches in the Sudan: "In a highly controversial move, the Sudanese government is planning to flood a vast stretch of the southern Nile...
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SudanPlanet
Available in Italian and English. With reports, overviews and some great photos.
A new dam in the area of the 4th cataract will put under water all the islands and large territories along the Nile, up to Abu Hamed, sinking prehistoric and historic sites which have never been investigated (Fig. 1).The Sudanese authorities (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums) invited all the archaeological mission working in the country to contribute to the rescue of sites upstream of the dam. Indeed, it is necessary to organise systematic survey activities and rescue excavations to record archaeological sites and materials in the flooded area (Figs. 2, 3, 4).
Several foreign missions have answered the call and some have started salvage campaigns in the area, like the Sudan Archaeological Research Society from London, the Archaeological Museum of Gdansk (Poland), the French Unit of the National Corporation for Antiquities and
Museums, the University of California at Santa Barbara (USA). A sector of the area has been assigned to the Italian mission which is actually conducting archaeological excavations in Central Sudan (El Salha Project directed by Donatella Usai on behalf of the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient, sponsored by AREA OFFICE and GASID from Turin).
- Sudan Dams Appeal
Subject: Sudan Dams Appeal Vincent Rondot Former Director of French Unit/SFDAS President, International Society for Nubian Studies Paris, 2 February 2012 Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the International Society for Nubian Studies and its staff, please...
- Construction Machines Assist British Museum In Sudan
easier.com Two Iveco Eurocargo 4x4’s and two New Holland Construction machines, a backhoe loader and a crawler excavator, have played a crucial role in the success of an archaeology recovery project which has seen the British Museum working in conjunction...
- The Case Of The Merowe Dam In Sudan
BN Village (Prof. Manu Ampim) Two-part posting which shows exerpts from a report which is available for purchase. In August 2007, I visited the Sudan for two weeks to conduct field research near the Merowe Dam area in the country’s northern region....
- More Re Sudan Rescue Archaeology
"Archaeology teams in Sudan are working against the clock to rescue an entire swathe of Nile Valley heritage from the rising waters of a Chinese-built dam. The Merowe dam is a controversial hydro-electric project - one of the largest in Africa - being...
- Flooding Nubia - Again
http://tinyurl.com/c3plm (The Telegraph) An article highlighting the potential loss of irreplaceable archaeological riches in the Sudan: "In a highly controversial move, the Sudanese government is planning to flood a vast stretch of the southern Nile...