One of the exciting community outreach projects that the Narrating Nubia project has been working on is the development of a children’s book. This has been a project undertaken by a team of local community members, archaeologists, and a Sudanese-American artist. On a recent trip to El-Kurru, team members working on the book were able […]
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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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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
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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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
Our work in El-Kurru has continued these past few weeks, both continuing construction on the new community heritage center and development of exhibits and programs for the center. The center will be a place for visitors and local residents to gather, to share, and to learn, both about the archaeology of El-Kurru and about the
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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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
Renovations Begun in El-Kurru! Read More »
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
