Word: nubian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also appointed were Henry J. Irwin '60, of Washington, D.C., and now with the Nubian Expedition of the University of Colorado in Wadi Halfa, Sudan; Terence P. O'Brlen of Victoria, Australia--biology; and Steven Vogel of Beacon, N.Y.--biology...
...land vanished, Nubian men sought work in the cities, where their proverbial honesty and fanatical cleanliness won them jobs. Now, at the rate of 300 a day, the remaining Nubians are being moved downstream from their villages to the Kom Ombo area, some 40 miles north of Aswan...
...government of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, determined to make a showpiece of Kom Ombo, is at work on 25,000 houses, 138 stores, 33 mosques and 36 schools. The houses have been built largely to the Nubians' own specifications, with high-walled patios, animal pens, 12-ft. ceilings and up to four bedrooms per house. They will soon be adorned with tradition al Nubian frescoes - stylized scorpions, lions, fish, snakes, suns, moons and stars. "After all," says Sheik Mardani, "there's no law against beauty...
...Nubian women seem happy about the move. Stone walls and concrete floors are a welcome change after a dusty lifetime of adobe and mud. Besides, there are movies, television, schools and clinics. As the Nubians file aboard the paddle steamer headed for Kom Ombo -loaded down with palm fiber beds, carved wooden chests, magical amulets, goats and sheep-they try to exorcise their grief of leave-taking by singing. One song runs: "The Nile is drowning Nubia and we must forget the past. The river brings life and the river brings. death...
Since 1250 B.C., the seated colossi of Abu Simbel have stared fixedly across the Nile and the Nubian desert toward the rising sun. By 1970, they will continue their vigil from the top of the sandstone cliff that now rises behind them, leaving their ancient site under 200 f of turbid water...