Adams receives Sudanese medal

http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=13273

"The American Professor William Y. Adams, a well-celebrated cultural anthropologist, archeologist, ethnologist, and historian was presented the Order of the Two Niles medal by the President of Sudan at the Republican Palace, Khartoum. Earlier in the 1950s, Adams led the salvation of many archeological sites that had been threatened by inundation of the Glen Canion Dam in his own country, the United States of America. In 1957-9, the UNESCO expert led the salvation of Nubia archeology from the inundation of the High Dam in Aswan. . . . Adams led for seven consecutive years an unprecedented number of scientific teams and individual researchers that helped to preserve more than 1,000 sites of the Nubian civilization, in addition to 150 newly-explored sites. The notable expert was also a consultant of the directors of the Sudanese department of antiquities".

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