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William Carruthers

William Carruthers

William Carruthers is Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, and the author of “Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.”

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How Egypt’s Aswan Dam Washed Away Nubian Heritage

How Egypt’s Aswan Dam Washed Away Nubian Heritage

Before the Aswan Dam was complete, “Nubian life” was recorded by an “ethnological survey.” Yet what seemed to matter most to the Egyptian and Sudanese governments and others were the relics that the country’s Nubians lived among: archaeological sites and ancient temples from the Pharaonic and Greco-Roman eras.

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