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Sudan's anti-Christian campaign is a product of history and geography, as well as of Islam's militant spread across modern Africa. The 8,000,000 Sudanese of the sandy north are Arabic and Nubian in origin, and Moslem to a man. Most of the 4,000,000 inhabitants of the swampy and forest-covered south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence...
...rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Uam in Egypt. The President felt that the American contribution in the form of funds accumulated in Egypt could best be used to preserve the lesser temples in the U.A.R. and Sudan and help finance archaeological exploration in the Nubian area of Egypt, also threatened once the dam is completed...
...cast of Ionides' character lies solid achievement as a naturalist. No less than four separate species of snake bear his Latinized name as their discoverer, and 22 species of rare mammals have been hunted down by Ionides for zoos and museums, including the Addra gazelle, the sassaby, the Nubian ibex and the scimitar-horned white oryx...
Underwater Temples. Not only the Great and the Small Temples at Abu Simbel, but a hundred other partially excavated sites in Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when...
Bigger Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments...