Aswan Dam on Nile Cruise on Egypt Tours with Key of Life

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Salvage projects necessitated by the construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s saved a number of                                                                                                                                                             
Nubian monuments from destruction by inundation and enhanced our knowledge of ancient Nubia                                                                                                                                                                   
tremendously. It was not until 1978, in a joint project organized by The Brooklyn Museum and the                                                                                                                                                              
Loewey Museum of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, that a major exhibition                                                                                                                                                            
presented this aspect of African history to the public. Public response was overwhelming then.                                                                                                                                                                
Meanwhile the numbers of interested parties has grown exponentially. Grass-roots reading groups                                                                                                                                                               
were organized in African-American communities in response to the dearth of presentations of just                                                                                                                                                             
this type of information. Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa is an excellent, in fact, prime,                                                                                                                                                             
opportunity for disseminating information, and for providing concrete evidence of this past that                                                                                                                                                              
is so eagerly sought after.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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