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Россия и Восток. К 100-летию политических и культурных связей новейшего времени. Т. 2 5 Bell Herman (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter; Working Group on Exonyms of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN)) Residents of Nubia before the High Dam On 14 May 1964 First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and the presidents of Iraq and the Yemen simultaneously pressed a button and diverted the waters of the River Nile to the High Dam. It had been built with important financial and technical aid from the Soviet Union. Flood waters were destined to cover large areas of riverbank in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. UNESCO had put out an appeal to save the historic monuments of Nubia. The process of obliging Nubian residents to leave their homeland was already well under way. This is the tomb of a king whose language was almost certainly a variety of Nubian, just before it was committed to writing in its own alphabet drawn from Greek, Coptic and Meroitic in the early middle ages. The most important objects in the Nubia Museum in Aswan come from tombs such as this one. The tombs may now be covered not only by water from the lake behind the High Dam, but also by silt. This presents a severe challenge to any plans for further excavation. How many important objects are still concealed in tombs like this? СЕКЦИЯ XIII • SECTION XIII СЕКЦИЯ АФРИКАНИСТОВ: «ЧТЕНИЯ ПАМЯТИ Д. А. ОЛЬДЕРОГГЕ» AFRICAN STUDIES: “IN MEMORIAM OF D. A. OLDEROGGE”