Hagar El-Beida 2: saving Sudanese Antiquities
Longa, Anna (Kraków)
Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, vol.12, Kraków (2008)
Abstract
Intensive archaeological research currently conducted in the 4th Nile cataract region are an answer to an appeal of the sudanese service of antiquities. Due to dam construction on the 4th Cataract an artificial lake will appear in this area, measuring c. 170 km in length and a few to a few dozen km in width. Thousands of archaeological sites will therefore be gone forever, traces of presence of men that in these region go back to the stone age. numerous institutes and scientific institutions have been invited to cooperate in the endangered area. Until recently the 4th cataract region remained a white spot on the archaeological map of Sudan. The sparse works conducted there only pointed to the existence of archaeological sites in the area.
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