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LESS than four years ago practically nothing was known of the true history of that stretch of the Nile Valley, immediately above the First Cataract, which is known to us to-day as Nubia, beyond a few ancient Egyptian stories of raids and conquests, and the tales, —often enough fantastic and unreal, of Greek and Roman tourists. In one brief winter's work (1907-8) Dr. Reisner and his collaborators have changed all that. For they have recovered from the soil of Nubia the materials for reconstructing the main phases of the history of that country's strange vicissitudes during the last fifty centuries, as well as a great mass of precise information concerning that crucial period in her evolution, when, about twenty-seven centuries before the Christian era, she betran to lag behind Egypt and take her own wayward course, which earned for her the ancient byword “wretched” Nubia.
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"The Archælogical Survey of Nubia. R port for 1907–8". Vol i., Archælogical Report. By Prof. G. A. Reisner . Pp. V+373+330 text-figures. Plates and plans to accompany vol. i. Pp. 24+73 plates+xxx plans. (Cairo: National Printing Department, 1910.) Price 2 l.e.
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SMITH, G. The Unveiling of Nubia1. Nature 86, 283–286 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086283a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/086283a0