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Subject(s)

• Aswan High Dam (Egypt) [Browse]
• Aswan Dam Region (Egypt)—Antiquities [Browse]
• Egypt—Antiquities [Browse]
• Nubia—Antiquities [Browse]

Related name

• International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia [Browse]

Summary note

This collection consists of an almost complete run of reports from the executive committee of UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia from 1963 to 1982. In 1954 the decision was made to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River in upper Egypt. This dam would create a huge artificial lake covering the Upper Nile Valley from Aswan in Egypt to the Dal Cataract in Sudan - a extremely rich cultural area, which has been known as Nubia since antiquity. In 1959 the Egyptian and the Sudanese Governments requested UNESCO to assist their countries in the protection and rescue of the endangered monuments and sites. In 1960, the Director-General of UNESCO launched an appeal to the Member States for an International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. This appeal resulted in the excavation and recording of hundreds of sites, the recovery of thousands of objects, and the salvage and relocation of a number of important temples to higher ground, the most famous of them the temple complexes of Abu Simbel and Philae. The campaign ended on 10 March 1980 as a complete success. Within the International Campaign, UNESCO played the role of a coordinator and intermediary between the donor States and the Egyptian and Sudanese Governments and facilitated their efforts to save the cultural heritage of Nubia. As a control panel for these activities, the Executive Committee of the International Campaign was created in 1960 and a Trust Fund was established. As a follow-up to the successful completion of the campaign, the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo was launched in 1982.

Notes

• From the holdings of Princeton University Library's United Nations Collection.
• "Translated from the the French".
• "UNESCO/NUBIA/1 - UNESCO/NUBIA/22".
• "First Session Paris, 17-19 December 1962 - ".

Contents

• [1] Executive Committee, Report by the Committee, First Session / Paris, 17-19 December 1962
• [2] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Second Session / Paris, 21-22 March 1963
• [3] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Third Session / Paris, 24-25 April 1963
• [4] Executive Committee, Report by the Committee, Fourth Session / Paris, 10-12 June 1963
• [5] Executive Committee, Report by the Committee, Fifth Session / Paris, 7-9 October 1963
• [6] Executive Committee, Report by the Committee, Sixth Session / Cairo, 5-9 November 1963
• [7] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Seventh Session / Paris, 24-26 March 1964
• [8] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Eighth Session / Paris, 14-16 October 1964
• [9] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee / The Hague 24-25 September 1965
• [10] Executive Committee, Report, Eleventh Session / Unesco House, Paris, 15-17 March 1966
• [11] Executive Committee, Report, Twelfth Session / Madrid, 26-28 September 1966
• [12] Executive Committee, Report, Thirteenth Session / Abu Simbal (UAR), 14-16 March 1967
• [13] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Fourteenth Session / Paris, 27-29 November 1967
• [14] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Fifteenth Session / Paris, 9-10 May 1968
• [15] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Sixteenth Session / Paris, 8 October 1968
• [16] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Seventeenth Session / Paris, 18 April 1969
• [17] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Eighteenth Session / Paris, 3-4 December 1970
• [18] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Nineteenth Session / Paris, 12 December 1971
• [19] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Twentieth Session / Paris, 17 July 1972
• [20] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Twenty-first Session / Aswan, 21-22 March 1973
• [21] Executive Committee, Report of the Committee, Twenty-second Session / Paris, 15 and 16 November 1973
• [22] For the establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, Appeal by Mr. Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Direstor-General of UNESCO / Cairo, 3 March 1982.

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Other title(s)

Report by the Committee

OCLC

1340394105

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