We have restarted our renovation of “Beit Mahjoub”—the house of Mahjoub’s family—that will be the home for the Community Heritage Center in El-Kurru! One of the project’s architects, Nadejda Reshetnikova (“Nadia”), returned to El-Kurru for three weeks in January and February to restart the project. She and our second architect, José Ignacío Forcadell Utrilla (“Nacho”), […]
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Bailey: Anwar and I have been friends since my visit to El-Kurru last year (see post here). We stayed in contact through WhatsApp, and when I saw a Call for Papers over email about an AIA panel on decolonizing North African archaeology, I immediately thought of him. Anwar: I flew to the United States for
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Several members of the El-Kurru team are on their way to Sudan to work with our partners on the El-Kurru community heritage center, which will open this year. We will have a chance to see our worksheets and teacher training materials in action in several Sudanese schools, and we will work more on our bilingual
On Saturday, October 22nd at 1pm EST the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center will be hosting a lecture by Ismail Elnour on community archaeology around the Jebel Barkal site. Zoom registration for the event can be found here.
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This past August, our team members Anwar Ali, Geoff Emberling, and Sami Elamin traveled to the University of Warsaw for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies to present their paper “The Complexity of Collaboration in Postcolonial Archaeology: The Community Heritage Center at El-Kurru.” Anwar wrote the following about his experience: On August 26th I
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The Friends of ASOR are hosting a webinar on September 29th at 6pm EDT on the bioarchaeology of the Nubia Expedition! The talk will feature Prof. Brenda J. Baker and be moderated by our own Prof. Geoff Emberling; registration for the event is now open and available here.
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The Spring 2022 issue of the Kelsey Museum’s Newsletter is out now and features an article from our own Geoff Emberling on the El-Kurru Heritage Center! The Newsletter can be found on the Kelsey Museum’s website.
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The Nile Valley was the birthplace of many ancient cultures. Yet the monuments and texts of Egypt have long overshadowed the vibrant cultures and kingdoms that lay further to the south in the region known as Nubia (or Kush), in what is today southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Available this fall semester, the course centers
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LSA Magazine’s Summer 2022 issue includes a feature on the Collaboratory, highlighting “Nostalgic Futures: Animating Nubian Narratives” along with our other projects. The summer issue can be found online here, as can the individual feature.
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Hello! I’m Bailey Franzoi, a third-year PhD student in the Interdepartmental Program for Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) at the University of Michigan. In a previous post, we announced that the El-Kurru team had embarked for Sudan and that we were very excited to begin renovations on the former home of Mahjoub Ali, eventually transforming
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