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Financial support from the Jutta Vogel Foundation was given to kick-start the project and permitted preliminary scientific research measures to begin in spring 2004, the aim of which is to explore the stretch of the Nile which is least known: the area of the 4th cataract in northern Sudan.
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The project was triggered by plans of the government in Khartoum to build a huge hydro-electric dam by 2008, including a reservoir extending over a distance of 170 km. The waters of the Nile will flood not only the fields and gardens of the indigenous Manasir, but also thousands of archaeological sites from the Palaeolithic and the Middle Ages - first Christian and
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