Cairo Office

Nubia Bibliography 2001-2012 is the up date of Nubia Bibliography up 2000 compiled by UNESCO in the frame of the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum of Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. This Bibliography includes a separated section dedicated to the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project, and other related articles, conducted in the past years at the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. UNESCO, not directly involved in such Campaign, acknowledges, with this small contribution, its achieved scientific results through the dedication of national and international teams of experts. To compile a Bibliography of Nubia became a challenging and hard work. This field of study, born with the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia in the sixties, has now evolved, covering a span of time which goes from prehistory to the modern era. It involves not only archaeology, traditionally associated with it, but various other scientific disciplines. Furthermore, with the intensification, in recent years, of archaeological researches in the surrounding deserts and other regions of Sudan, the discipline tends to give more and more space to comparative studies which are not only limited to those with Egypt. Due to this compleixity, the creation of an Online Interactive Bibliography of Nubia (OIBN), organized by subject, area, historical period, author and date, would be the best and easier way to keep updated (directly by the researchers) this work.