Egypt
Egittologia (Amelia Carolina Sparavigna)
- Nasa Modis Image Of The Day: River Nile
SpaceRef Click on the small image, right, to go to the page where the full sized photograph can be seen. Most views of Egypt show the famous Nile River Delta, so it is interesting to see this view of the southern part of Egypt. At the top left of the...
- Dangers Posed By Chinese-funded Projects In Africa
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/14/asia/AS-GEN-China-Africa.php"Chinese-funded dams and other projects potentially threaten Africa's environment and local populations, an environmental group said Monday, urging Beijing to avoid similar mistakes...
- 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...
- Italian Archaeologists To Join Efforts To Save Sudan's Artifacts
http://english.people.com.cn/200703/01/eng20070301_353343.html"Two top Italian archaeologists will join the international efforts to save ancient artifacts from being submerged by a dam project in Sudan, Italian news agency ANSA reported Wednesday. Twin...
- Hungarian Archaeological Expedition In Nubia
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.209989248&par=0"A team of Hungarian archaeologists, headed by Egyptologist Gabor Lassanyi, will conduct excavations in Sudanese Nubia - an area on the river Nile conquered by ancient Egyptians...
Egypt
The Merowe Dam on the Nile
Egittologia (Amelia Carolina Sparavigna)
This article is written in rather broken English (though much, much better than my Italian!) but is well worth persevering with because it makes some very important points about the way in which dam-formed lakes use Palaeochannels to expand in ways which can threaten both the environment and the archaeological remains at the edges of the artificial lakes.
The huge reservoir of the Merowe Dam on Nile River is featured in an image photographed on 5 October 2010 by a crewmember on the International Space Station [1]. The dam is located near the Fourth Cataract of the river, in that part of Nubia desert where the Nile is creating its Great Bend, a contorted path of the river through the bedrocks of Bayuda Massif. Few years ago, the satellite imagery showed a fertile strip of land with many villages, where the paleochannels of the Nile hosted vivid green cultivated fields. With term "paleochannel", we call the old dry bed of rivers. Now, a huge part of this valley is under the waters of Merowe Dam reservoir that flooded villages, fields and archaeological sites.
- Nasa Modis Image Of The Day: River Nile
SpaceRef Click on the small image, right, to go to the page where the full sized photograph can be seen. Most views of Egypt show the famous Nile River Delta, so it is interesting to see this view of the southern part of Egypt. At the top left of the...
- Dangers Posed By Chinese-funded Projects In Africa
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/14/asia/AS-GEN-China-Africa.php"Chinese-funded dams and other projects potentially threaten Africa's environment and local populations, an environmental group said Monday, urging Beijing to avoid similar mistakes...
- 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...
- Italian Archaeologists To Join Efforts To Save Sudan's Artifacts
http://english.people.com.cn/200703/01/eng20070301_353343.html"Two top Italian archaeologists will join the international efforts to save ancient artifacts from being submerged by a dam project in Sudan, Italian news agency ANSA reported Wednesday. Twin...
- Hungarian Archaeological Expedition In Nubia
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Trends&loid=8.0.209989248&par=0"A team of Hungarian archaeologists, headed by Egyptologist Gabor Lassanyi, will conduct excavations in Sudanese Nubia - an area on the river Nile conquered by ancient Egyptians...