Newsletter, Number 41 (March, 1961)
The summer was a hot and somnolent one in Egypt this year, and as usual, during the hot season, most archaeological activities ceased. An exception was made for the removal of three temples in the northern stretch of Lower Nubia, where the high water of the Aswan reservoir covers the monuments for t...
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| Summary: | The summer was a hot and somnolent one in Egypt this year, and as usual, during the hot season, most archaeological activities ceased. An exception was made for the removal of three temples in the northern stretch of Lower Nubia, where the high water of the Aswan reservoir covers the monuments for the greater part of the year, only receding in the very hottest months of the summer. This year, in the baking heat that afflicts Upper Egypt and Nubia in the summer, engineers and work gangs of the Antiquities Department laboured for two months to dismantle and remove the small temples at Debud, Tafa, and Qertassi. These are all built-in masonry and are small enough so that the blocks can be numbered as removed, to be loaded on barges, and carried away for re-erection outside the zone to be flooded by the High Dam's reservoir. The work was done in good time, despite the torrid heat, and represents the first real step in the salvage problem with which the world's Egyptologists are so concerned. |
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