Moscow, Nauka, 1983, 183 p. (in Russian) One of the greatest achievements of Soviet archeology in the 60s is the results of the Nubian archaeological expedition headed by Academician B. B. Piotrovsky. The expedition operated for two seasons: from December 1, 1961 to March 31, 1962 and from December 14, 1962 to April 26, 1963. In a short time - a total of 8 months - a huge amount of work was done: the vast territory of the Nile River Valley, about 30 km long, from Herf Husayn to Maharraki, as well as Wadi Allaki, a route of about 300 km long, along which caravans went to the gold mines of the Nubian desert in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, was surveyed. The Nubian expedition investigated mainly two types of sources: archaeological (ancient sites of the Mousterian period, later settlements and burial grounds, as well as petroglyphs) and paleographic (hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions). The most numerous were archaeological sites dating back to different eras, discovered and explored by Soviet archaeologists. On both banks of the Nile, in the area of the villages of Dhaka and West Koshtamna, the expedition discovered more than ten localities of the Mousterian period, materials about which were subsequently prepared for publication by V. P. Lyubin1 . These findings made it possible for the first time to characterize the moutier of the Levallois facies in the middle part of Egyptian Nubia. In addition to the early complexes, monuments of the Late Paleolithic - Mesolithic period, the so-called Sebil culture, a settlement dating back to the First Dynasty, and the Remeni burial grounds of the Ancient and Middle Tsards2 were found and studied . Of particular interest to characterize the art and worldview of the ancient Nubian Desert population, 1 Lubin V. P. Lower Paleolithic in the Dhaka-Koshtamna region. In: Drevnyaya Nubiya [Ancient Nubia], Moscow, 1964. 2 See also: Vinogradov A.V. Sebil culture in the Dhaka region. Burial grounds of the Middle Kingdom era in ... Read more