ABSTRACT
The massive rescue operation of the archaeological sites of Lower Nubia (Fig. 14.1), undertaken in connection with the construction of the High Dam at Aswan in the 1960s, has produced an immense amount of new archaeological data, covering every period from palaeolithic times to the medieval Christian era (Säve-Söderbergh 1987). The Scandinavian Joint Expedition (SJE) to Sudanese Nubia (1960-1964), jointly staffed and financed by Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, and led by Professor Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, was responsible for an area stretching along the east bank of the Nile from the Egyptian border in the north to Gamai in the south, as well as the west bank tomb of Amenemhet, an area of c. 1502 km.
