Collaborator Ibrahim Sidahmed shares in his own words how the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has impacted daily life in the village of El-Kurru and countless other villages and small towns throughout Sudan. Since the war broke out in April, 15th between SAF and RSF […]
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Things have been a bit quiet these past few months, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been hard at work! With our Michigan Humanities grant concluding this summer, each of the sub groups are wrapping up their individual research projects — while much of our collective attention has been focused on our upcoming fall exhibition.
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Dear Readers, We share a message from our AmSARC friends and colleagues: Sudan is in crisis, and our colleagues with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) need our help to maintain their positions and safeguard cultural heritage throughout Sudan! The American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC) is now accepting donations to aid NCAM
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In a Zoom meet-up in early February, Mr. Narbe Mansoruian’s sixth grade students at the Hollywood Schoolhouse in Los Angeles, California shared with us their questions and reflections on their participation in the Fall 2022 Nubia Odyssey. We (Michael Fahy and Jeff Stanzler) opened the meeting with Michael showing a handful of photos from his
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An El-Kurru Community Heritage Center update from team member Anwar Mahjoub Ali. We have come a long way in the process of preparing a physical space for the Community Heritage Center in El-Kurru. We have discussed the possibility of naming it “Beit Mahjoub” (“house of Mahjoub”) in honor of my father Mahjoub. In addition to
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IKAP architect Nadejda Reshetnikova shares an end-of-season update from the El-Kurru Community Heritage Center. For many years now, the International Kurru Archaeological Project (IKAP) has had the idea to build a multifunctional community heritage center in El-Kurru, Sudan. In 2018, Ignacio Forcadell, the lead architect of the project, created an initial design for a new
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The following is an abridged example of an Odyssey Report written by Hatim-Arbaab Eujayl, one of the collaborators for Earth Odysseys: Nubia and a Narrating Nubia partner. To learn more about the course Earth Odysseys, see the previous blog post here. Required Listening Before reading Arbaab’s report, students were asked to watch the following clip
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The following is an abridged example of an Odyssey Report written by Anwar Mahjoub Ali, one of the collaborators for Earth Odysseys: Nubia. Anwar is an El-Kurru resident, a team member of the El-Kurru Archaeological Project, and a Narrating Nubia collaborator. To learn more about Earth Odysseys, see the previous blog post here. Anwar’s Report
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The following is an abridged example of a report written by one of the collaborators for Earth Odysseys: Nubia and a sample of guided student responses. To learn more about this project, see the previous blog post. “THE AMOUNT OF NATIVE NUBIAN SPEAKERS IS RAPIDLY DIMINISHING.” Nabra, Earth Odysseys Collaborator Fragment of an Old Nubian
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The Pyramids of Meroë, Sudan. (📸: Shannon Ness) Travel the world with your class. Earth Odysseys is an adventure-learning activity that “sends” students to places across the globe. This dynamic project is just one of the ways the Interactive Communications & Simulations Group at the University of Michigan helps students, teachers, and community members to
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