Remembering the “Nubia Campaign”

Recollections and Evaluations of The International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia after Fifty Years

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M. Costanza De Simone
The surviving protagonists of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, one of the most important enterprises in the field of cultural heritage, met, many years later, at the Nubia Museum of Aswan to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. It was March 2009. They recounted their personal experience in Nubia, highlighting the success of the technical work carried out but without ever forgetting what has been irremediably lost in this conflict between culture and human development. The “Campaign” transformed the Nubia region not only in a international chantier of new and challenging scientific experiences but also in a theatre of unforgettable human relationships. Dynamics, reflections, evaluations, mixed with scientific data, make this volume an educational manual in the field of cultural heritage at all levels enriched by descriptions of natural panoramas, no longer visible to our eyes, geological observations, insights on local flora and fauna. Words and images offer a vision of not only what is part of the collective memory of major events (almost always scientific/academic) but also popular memories of ordinary individuals of which history is also made.
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2025
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Introduction The 50th anniversary of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
Chapter 1 The Archaeological Campaign in the Sudan: History and Consequences
Chapter 2 The Textiles: Untold Surprises from the Nubian Monuments Campaign
Chapter 3 Intangible Heritage of Nubia: Geographical Names and Language Revitalization
Chapter 4 Remembering the Turin Egyptian Museum Mission to Dehmit, Kalabsha and Korosko
Chapter 5 The Years of Nubia: Sailing the Nile
Chapter 6 An Egyptian Temple: From the Banks of the Nile to Those of Po
Chapter 7 Nubian Recollections
Chapter 8 Memories of the Nubia Missions in Egypt and Sudan
Chapter 9 Memories from the Salvage of the Abu Simbel Temples
Chapter 10 The Two Islands of Philae: A Memory of the Temples Relocation
Chapter 11 Building Types of Medieval Nubian Church Architecture and Their Relation with the Contemporary Architecture in Egypt
Chapter 12 Some Personal Recollections of Nubian Days
Chapter 13 Egyptian Women, the High Dam and the Nubian Salvage Campaign: Their Role and New International Visibility
Chapter 14 Exploratory Expedition to Akasha, Ukma and Songi in 1966 by the University of Geneve, Switzerland
Chapter 15 Memories from the Nubian Campaign
Chapter 16 Nubia—Encounter the Past as a Personal Beginning
Chapter 17 Some Highlights of the Indian Expedition to Nubia
Chapter 18 A Short Evaluation of the Nubia Salvage Campaign
Chapter 19 The Archaeological Legacy of Nubia—A Scandinavian Perspective
Chapter 20 The Work of the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Nubia (1960–1966)
Chapter 21 Nubia: Forty Years Later
Chapter 22 Egypt Turns into an Open Air Museum
Chapter 23 Aksha: The Excavations of the French–Argentine Archaeological Expedition to Sudanese Nubia (1961–1963)
Chapter 24 A Personal Rediscovery of the Nubian Nile
Chapter 25 The State of Anthropological Research in Lower Nubia
Chapter 26 Looking Back at the Czechoslovakia Contribution to the Nubia Archaeological Salvage Campaign
Chapter 27 How the Nubian Salvage Campaign Transformed Egyptology
Chapter 28 The Prehistory of Lower Nubia as Seen by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition
Chapter 29 Rescue and Loss as Themes of the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition
Back Matter
Analytical Index
Maria Costanza De Simone is an Egyptologist specialist in Nubian studies (Egypt and Sudan), with extensive experience mostly gained in 19 years of stable work in the field -especially as a UNESCO expert- where she now coordinates the creation of the Nubia Museum in Wadi Halfa.
“Being published in the shadow of the ongoing conflict in Sudan and recent examples of extensive looting of the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum, the volume’s critical consideration of cultural heritage and its loss remain as relevant and pertinent today as it was during the Nubian Campaign.”-Robert J. Stark, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Introduction: The 50th Anniversary of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
 M.Costanza De Simone

1 The Archaeological Campaign in the Sudan: History and Consequences
 WilliamY. Adams †

2 The Textiles: Untold Surprises from the Nubia Monuments Campaign
 NettieK. Adams

3 Intangible Heritage of Nubia: Geographical Names and Language Revitalization
 Herman Bell †

4 Remembering the Turin Egyptian Museum Mission to Dehmit, Kalabsha and Korosko
 Luisa Bongrani †

5 The Years of Nubia: Sailing the Nile
 Edda Bresciani †

6 An Egyptian Temple: From the Banks of the Nile to Those of Po
 Silvio Curto †

7 Nubian Recollections
 Sergio Donadoni †

8 Memories of the Nubia Missions in Egypt and Sudan
 Giuseppe Fanfoni

9 Memories from the Salvage of the Abu Simbel Temples
 Ragnar Fossgaard

10 The Two Island of Philae: A Memory of the Temples Relocation
 Antonio Giammarusti

11 Building Types of Medieval Nubian Church Architecture and Their Relation with the Contemporary Architecture in Egypt
 Peter Grossmann †

12 Some Personal Recollections of Nubian Days
 Gerhard Haeny †

13 Egyptian Women, the High Dam and the Nubian Salvage Campaign: Their Role and the New International Campaign
 Fayza Heikal

14 Exploratory Expedition to Akasha, Ukma and Songi in 1966 by the University of Geneve, Switzerland
 Reinhard Huber

15 Memories from the Nubian Campaign
 Stefan Jakobielski

16 Nubia—Encounter the Past as a Personal Beginning
 Horst Jaritz

17 Some Highlights of the Indian Expedition to Nubia
 Bray Basil Lal †

18 A Short Evaluation of the Nubian Salvage Campaign
 Jean Leclant †

19 The Archaeological Legacy of Nubia—A Scandinavian Perspective
 Hans-Åke Nordström †

20 The Work of the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Nubia (1960–1966)
 Manuel Pellicer †

21 Nubian: 40 Years Later
 Mohamed Riad

22 Egypt Turns into an Open Air Museum
 Alessandro Roccati

23 Aksha during and after the Excavations of the French–Argentine Archaeological Expedition to Sudanese Nubia (1961–1963)
 Elsa Rosenvasser Feher †, Perla Fuscaldo

24 A Personal Rediscovery of the Nubian Nile
 George Scanlon †

25 The State of Anthropological Research in Lower Nubia
 Eugen Strouhal †

26 Looking Back at the Czechoslovackia Contribution to the Nubia Archaeological Salvage Campaign
 Miraslov Verner

27 How the Nubia Salvage Campaign Transformed Egyptology
 KentR. Weeks

28 The Prehistory of Lower Nubia as Seen by the Combined Prehistoric Expedition
 Fred Wendorf †, Romuald Schild †

29 Rescue and Loss as Themes of the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition: Experience in the High Dam Archaeological Salvage Campaign
 Bruce Williams

Index
Tangible and Intangible Heritage Institutions; libraries; specialists; (post-graduated) students; practioners; passionates; Nubian communities; cooperation development institutions; general public: all people, regardless of their status, affinity or belonging because cultural heritage is a tangible and intangible asset belonging to everyone.
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Publisher:
Brill
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 361 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713949

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