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Traces of Nubia

2022
This chapter tackles the traces of the Nubian campaign. Despite the flood, traces of Nubia remained and unveiled the unevenness of the campaign that took place there. An early and obvious indication of the issue came in the different names given to the reservoir forming behind the High Dam.
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Peopling Nubia

2022
This chapter looks into the Nubian campaign becoming symbolic of the global mobility and cosmopolitan representation of people. It cites the paperwork resonances connecting Nubian migration and the Nubian campaign. Through the promotion of universalism during the Nubian campaign, UNESCO attempted to make cosmopolitan, internationalist values ...
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Travels in Nubia

2011
John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra in modern Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. Posing as a Muslim convert, Burckhardt spent two years exploring and studying Arabic and Islamic law in Aleppo,
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Vanishing Nubia

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Abstract As the Nasserist state built a large hydroelectric dam in the south of Egypt in the early 1960s, Egyptian botanists undertook salvage surveys of the area to be flooded behind the dam, known as historic Nubia. Scientists in these surveys searched for a type of palm tree (Medemia argun) well documented in ancient Egyptian tombs ...
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Nubia

2003
William Y. Adams   +4 more
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Nubia

1975
2, 1972, Warschau, Symposium on Nubian Studies   +2 more
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