SALVAGE OF PHILAE MONUMENTS
Organisation for the Preservation of the Nubian Monuments, early 1970s

Album of silver gelatin prints (40), mounted recto to black card, each measuring approx. 180 x 235mm, which acted as a visual report on the relocation of the ancient monuments on Philae, which took place under Egypt's Ministry of Culture & Information. Oblong 4to measuring 297 x 360mm, with text in both Arabic and English, green calf with green silk endpapers, screw binding with braided rope binding.

"The island of Philae, in the vicinity of the First Cataract, is a granite rock covered with a thick layer of mud deposited by the river. Its richness in ancient monuments has consecrated its renown. From the time of heightening the [Aswan] Dam, at about two miles downstream, the island and its monuments disappear perennially and almost completely under water from December to April, and they emerge again when the sluices of the dam allow the waters to withdraw."