| Description | Correspondence, draft letters, memoranda, reports, notes and other papers concerning the UNESCO campaign of archaeological salvage in Nubia (southern Egypt) in partnership with the British Nubian Committee. The papers focus in particular on the preservation of the temples at Abu Simbel.
Includes notes which may have been made by Jacquetta Hawkes in the course of her research for her biography of Mortimer Wheeler, n.d. |
| AdminHistory | Wheeler was Chairman of the British Nubian Committee, which was appointed by the British Government to collaborate with UNESCO in the salvage of Nubian antiquities. |