Anthropology as a discipline came to Egypt around 1900, as foreign anthropologists reported home on the culture they found. Gradually the intellectual approach was influenced by the functionalist scho
Written to accompany an exhibition at the Moesgard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark in 2003-2004, this handsome volume describes the culture and civilization of the region south of Cairo on the upper Nile Ri
In the 1960s, a large part of the Nubian population living along the Nile River was moved out to make way for a new lake behind the Aswan High Dam, then under construction. To preserve as much as poss
