Geoff Emberling – Narrating Nubia: The Social Lives of Heritage

Geoff Emberling

Geoff Emberling is an archaeologist and museum curator specializing in the cultures of ancient North Africa and the Middle East

A Visit to Kerma

During our work with colleagues and community members around El-Kurru, we realized that many of our closest collaborators had not seen other important heritage sites in northern Sudan. So when we asked questions like “what would you like to see in an exhibition about the site and about your community,” they had no way of

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Travel to Sudan

We have our travel permissions, and the El-Kurru group is planning to travel to Sudan in January 2022 to continue our work with our community collaborators and Sudanese professional colleagues in person! We will be working with a partner project at a nearby site, the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project (website and blog here)—some team members

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Street art in Khartoum done during the 2019 popular revolution, depicting the ancient lion-headed god Apedemak in protest

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Narrating Nubia: The Social Lives of Heritage is a dynamic research project running from 2021-2023 that aims to develop collaborative fieldwork methods in cultural anthropology and archaeology of Nubia. Our work is funded by the University of Michigan Humanities Collaboratory. Narrating Nubia has four research areas that you can follow through this website. We will

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