On January 19th, the El-Kurru team and some friends from the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project visited the nearby Kushite sites of Doukki Gel and Kerma. Most of us had never been to these sites before, and this trip was a great opportunity to meet other teams excavating Kushite sites in Sudan and to see how […]
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Dear friends and colleagues, We would like to alert you to an online conference session focusing on Nubia and Egypt that will take place this coming Sunday, December 12, from 2:30-4:30 pm (Eastern time here in the US): Reintegrating Africa in the ancient world: Colonial and anticolonial perspectives on ancient societies of Northeast Africa The session
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Hafsa Amberkab is “reviving Egypt’s Nubian heritage” through her work. Learn more about her story and impact here: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210922-a-revival-of-egypts-nubian-culture
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Africa Update’s fall issue is about Ancient and Contemporary Sudan. Link: https://www2.ccsu.edu/africaupdate/?issue=146 This issue includes: 1. Work from Sudanese expert Dr. Shadia Taha, who illuminates the displacement of Nubia’s indigenous community as a result of the construction of dams along the Nile 2. Lena Idris’s paper on ethnic identity and indigenous expression 3. An article
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