Essays about: "Aswan"

Found 3 essays containing the word Aswan.

  1. 1. Digital Reconstruction of the Archaeological Landscape in the Concession Area of the Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia (1961–1964)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Carolin Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : Nubia; Geographical Information System GIS ; Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia SJE ; digitalisation; digital elevation model;

    Abstract : The Scandinavian Joint Expedition to Sudanese Nubia (SJE) was one of the substantial contributions of crucial salvage archaeology within the International Nubian Campaign which was pursued in conjunction with the building of the High Dam at Aswan in the early 1960’s. A large quantity of archaeological data was collected by the SJE in a continuous area of northernmost Sudan and published during the subsequent decades. READ MORE

  2. 2. A groundwater flow model for water related damages on historic monuments – Case study West Luxor, Egypt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Edgar Herbas Campos; [2009]
    Keywords : groundwater; conceptual model; irrigation; GMS 6.0; World Heritage; Luxor; Egypt.; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : In 1979 “The Ancient Thebes and its Necropolis” entered in the World Heritage List in a core zone of 7390 ha. Western Thebes holds the remains of about 36 temples in varying degrees of preservation and dating from archaic times (3100 – 2686 B.C.) to the Greco-Roman Period (332 B. READ MORE

  3. 3. Review of methods used for lowering groundwater levels at archeological sites, Egypt

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Dahlia S. Hassan; [2006]
    Keywords : Civil engineering; teknisk geografi; irrigation; groundwater table; Aswan High Dam AHD ; water-soluble salts; offshore technology; salts accumulations; Hydrogeology; geographical and geological engineering; teknisk geologi; Hydrogeologi; hydraulic engineering; soil mechanics; Väg- och vattenbyggnadsteknik; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Seven or eight thousand years ago, as the farthest the human memory can reach, the Egyptians established a great civilization that was considered as the origin of civilization on the Earth. There is no place in Egypt where man cannot find evidence that enlighten this civilization and tell about Egypt's role in most of the world's historic events from the beginning of mankind until the present. READ MORE