UNESCO Compaign To Safeguard Pharaonic Temples In Nubia: Kuwait 1964
In 1964 Kuwait took part in the UNESCO compaign to safeguard Pharaonic temples in Nubia. It issued a set of three postage stamps for the benefit of the Campaign Fund.
After the revolution of 1952, let by president Gamal Abdelnasser (known as Nasser), Egypt established ambitious development plans. To provide the necessary electricity, Egypt decided to build the high dam on the Nile near the city of Aswan in the south of the country. But the lake of the dam, was going to extend for hundreds of kilometers in Egyptian Nubia and Sudanese Nubia.
The Dam’s lake threatened to engulf a large number of pharaonic monuments, including 17 temples. The most famous among these monuments was the Ramses II temple at Abu Simbel and temple of Isis in Philae.
Safeguard Pharaonic Temples In Nubia
To save the monuments, Egypt requested international assistance. The UNESCO lauched the project to dismantle them stone by stone and rebuilding them in other places, away from the waters of Lake Dam.
In 1960, UNESCO, the United Nations Education Sciences and Culture Organization, launched an international campaign to save the monuments of Nubia, in which thirty countries were involved in providing scientific expertise and material resources for this giant project.
To provide the necessary financial means for this project, thirty countries have issued commemorative postage stamps with the words “save the monuments of Nubia”. Their income was used to finance the project. Kuwait was one of the participating countries.
Temples relocated outside of Egypt
Most monuments were rebuilt in locations adjacent to the place of origin. But four temples were gifted to other countries in recognition of their efforts to preserve the Egyptian monuments.
Temple of Taffeh donated to Netherlands
Temple of Ellesyia donated to Italy
Temple of Debod donated to Spain
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