Abu Simbel Research Articles

Saharan exploitation of plants 8,000 years BP

SORGHUM and millets are among the world's most important food crops and, for the inhabitants of the semi-arid tropics, they are the main sources of protein and energy. Little is known about the history of these crops; their domestication is thought to have occurred in the African savannah, but the date and precise location are unknown1,2. Excavations at an early Holocene archaeological site in southernmost Egypt, 100 km west of Abu Simbel, have yielded hundreds of carbonized seeds of sorghum and millets, with consistent radiocarbon dates of 8,000 years before present (BP), thus providing the earliest evidence for the use of these plants. They are morphologically wild, but the lipid fraction of the sorghum grains shows a closer relationship to domesticated than to wild varieties. Whatever their domestic status, the use of these plants 8,000 years ago suggests that the African plant-food complex developed independently of the Levantine wheat and barley complex.

Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae, and Other Sites. Torgny Säve-Söderbergh

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsTemples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae, and Other Sites. Torgny Säve-Söderbergh Bruce WilliamsBruce Williams Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume 50, Number 1Jan., 1991 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/373473 Views: 6Total views on this site Copyright 1991 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia. The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites

Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia. The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites

Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (ed.). Temples and tombs of ancient Nubia: the international rescue campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and other sites. London: Thames & Hudson/UNESCO, 1987. 256 pages, 43 colour, 68 black-and-white illustrations. £25 hardback.

Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (ed.). Temples and tombs of ancient Nubia: the international rescue campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and other sites. London: Thames &amp; Hudson/UNESCO, 1987. 256 pages, 43 <i>colour</i>, 68 <i>black-and-white illustrations.</i> £25 <i>hardback.</i>

Book Review: Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier. Part 5: C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U, and J

Book Review: Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier. Part 5: C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U, and J

Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier. Part 5: C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U, and J

Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier. Part 5: C-Group, Pan Grave, and Kerma Remains at Adindan Cemeteries T, K, U, and J

Solar activity and atmospheric attenuation effects on the visibility of stars and planets during twilight

By use of the values of the sky twilight brightness deduced at sea level at Abu Simbel in 1980 during the high solar activity period, the visibility of stars and planets of magnitudes less than 5.5 during twilight are obtained. The results are given in charts for each one degree of Sun's depression below the horizon. These charts can be applied for different altitudes above the horizon and different bearing angles from direction of sunset. Tables of corrections for different values of atmospheric attenuation and solar activity are given.

Geochronology of Wadi Tushka: Lost Tributary of the Nile

The Sadat Canal, now under construction, is designed to drain excess water from Lake Nasser to the Western Desert by way of Wadi Tushka, a sand-filled, dry-wash tributary of the Nile 34 kilometers north of Abu Simbel. Core-drilling logs made by the Aswan High Dam Authority prior to excavation of the Sadat Canal and along 48 kilometers of its axis reveal as much as 33 meters of unconsolidated sand and gravel over Mesozoic bedrock and under surficial dune sand and playa muds of Holocene age. Excavation of the canal revealed Acheulean artifacts 6.7 meters below the surface in fluvial sediments capped by a buried, red calcic paleosol. These data are interpreted as evidence for the existence of a major tributary of the Nile during the late middle Pleistocene. The tributary drained the Kiseiba-Dungul Depression and possibly the Kharga Depression as well. Chalcedony-armored mudstones in the depressions are believed to be saline lake deposits possibly related to a lake that drained to the Nile by way of Wadi Tushka, thus entrenching the divide between the depression and the valley. Gross correlations with Pleistocene deposits of the Nile Valley and the Kharga Depression are based upon archeological evidence only until more precise geochronology can be applied to the problem.

Historical Observations on the Military Reliefs of Abu Simbel and Other Ramesside Temples in Nubia

Historical Observations on the Military Reliefs of Abu Simbel and Other Ramesside Temples in Nubia

Historical Observations on the Military Reliefs of Abu Simbel and Other Ramesside Temples in Nubia

Historical Observations on the Military Reliefs of Abu Simbel and Other Ramesside Temples in Nubia

University of Chicago Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition: Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Border, Preliminary Report

University of Chicago Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition: Excavations between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Border, Preliminary Report

Astronomically Determined Dates and Alignments

This is a tutorial article concerned with problems related to dates and, geometrical alignments determined from astronomical considerations. The mathematical problems often arise in connection with attempts to specifiy days of the year in the past or in connection with ancient edifices. In this way the solutions are of interest to anthropologists, archeologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and astronomy enthusiasts. While the methods of solution presented are general, specific problems are also employed for illustrative purposes. Some problems involve the famous ancient edifices of Abu Simbel, Cheops' Pyramid, and Stonehenge, and bright celestial objects such as the Sun, Sirius, and the Pleiades. Solutions depend on a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and basic astronomy, and often involve the phenomenon of the precession of the Earth's spin axis. Effects of precession are described geometrically and algebraically.

Aman Doger: Nubian Monster of the Nile

The Setting Most people are aware of Nubia through its monuments at Abu Simbel, but little is known about the Nubian people, who have recently been displaced from their land by the Aswan Dam. The Nubians are a dark-skinned people of Mediterranean physical type, whose traditional country was between Aswan in southern Egypt, and Dongola, Sudan. Their ancient land now lies beneath the depths of Lake Nasser, stretching from the high dam at Aswan to a point several hundred miles into Sudan. Nearly Ioo,ooo Nubians have been relocated in resettlement projects in two countries-Kom Ombo, Egypt, and Kaashamengerba, Sudan. In 1961 the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo began a study of that segment of Nubian culture and society lying within Egypt in order to document the life of this relatively unstudied population before major changes took place, and to aid in the planning for its new circumstances. I was fortunate enough to be a member of the research team of the Social Science Research Center; the data presented here thus refer to Egyptian Nubia.'

Book Review: The Beit El-Wali Temple of Ramesses II

Book Review: The Beit El-Wali Temple of Ramesses II

The Beit el-Wali Temple of Ramesses II

The Beit el-Wali Temple of Ramesses II

The Beit El-wali Temple of Ramesses II

The Beit El-wali Temple of Ramesses II

Gebel Adda Preliminary Report, 1965-66

season, and it became necessary to extend the present season to the utmost that the funds would permit. Previous seasons had been budgeted on a basis of two and a half months of actual payroll days, and in view of the new Social Insurance laws, which increase the excavator's labour bill by some twenty-five percent, considerable difficulty was experienced in making the budgeted sum extend to such a long work season, but the remarkable results of the first two months indicated the necessity of doing everything possible towards finishing the upper area of the Citadel. The Expedition staff for 1965-66 was composed as follows: N. B. Millet, director; K. R. Weeks, assistant director and physical anthropologist, Wojciech Kolantaj, chief architect; R. W. Huber, second architect and field supervisor; N. D. MacKenzie, field supervisor; A. Haller, photographer; S. L. Howe, artist; S. E. Millet, recorder; and Ahmed el-Nashati, inspector, Egyptian Antiquities Department. The work force, consisting of sixty men and boys of Quft, was in the charge of Rais Abbady Ahmed Hamid of that town. The Expedition owes a considerable debt of gratitude to Mr. Ahmed el-Nashati of the Antiquities Department for his willing help and co-operation in dealing with Government agencies and expediting our affairs under the somewhat difficult conditions that now prevail in the evacuated area of Nubia. He also took a great int rest in the work in the field, and many of his suggestions on interpretation have been inc rporated below. Our thanks are also due to the J int Venture at Abu Simbel, and most particularly to the director, Mr. Karl Maeckel, for their help and support in innumerable ways. The work carried out during the course of the season will be detailed in the following, each feature of interest being described on turn tog ther with its finds.

Flora of the Nile Region in Egyptian Nubia

AbstractA documantary floristic study was carried out on Egyptian Nubia before the formation of the artificial lake south of the Aswan High Dam. Three excursions were made from November 1963 to April 1964 to the villages of Afia, Geneina, Aniba, Ballana, Abu Simbel and Adendan which were richest in Agricultural land. About 6000 specimens were collected comprising 238 species of phanerogams, 171 genera and 55 families. 176 species are wild or naturalized, 62 species are cultivated. Three mosses and one fungus are also recorded. One species is new to science. Two genera, six species and one variety are entirely new to the flora of Egypt. 18 species are new to the area from Cairo to Wadi Halfa. For all species the locality, date of collection, state of the plant, habitat, Arabic and or Nubian name or names and local uses are given when available. Complete collections are deposited in the herbaria of the Faculty of Science, Cairo University and of the Desert Institute, Cairo.

ABU SIMBEL

The SciencesVolume 4, Issue 2 p. 4-7 ABU SIMBEL First published: July 1964 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1964.tb00752.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume4, Issue2July 1964Pages 4-7 RelatedInformation

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