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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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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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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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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Beautiful and evocative photos taken by local residents of El-Kurru village, located in northern Sudan, are now up on the Narrating Nubia website! Beginning in 2017, the archaeological team at El-Kurru asked residents of the local village to take photographs of their daily life and submit them as part of an annual photo contest. This
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In October of 2018 I was sitting in the Michigan theater, antsy with excitement, as a shadow in a rock climbing helmet repelled down from the ceiling and into view. The Blue Planet & Planet Earth BBC camera teams were here to present a lecture about their work from behind-the-scenes; highlighting the lengths the team
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Our own Geoff Emberling was recently interviewed for the Tides of History podcast, discussing Nubia’s rich history and his own archaeological experience in the region! The episode can be found on your favorite podcast platform or online at this link: https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/episode/5629-ancient-nubia-and-the-kingdom-of-kush-interview-with-dr-geoff-emberling/
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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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A new National Geographic documentary about Kush (Ancient Nubia) premiered earlier this month on the National Geographic Channel. The film focuses on the royal pyramid site of Nuri, where a team of archaeologists have been excavating a king’s tomb, as well as the religious site of Jebel Barkal, where Geoff Emberling is leading a new
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Professor Amal Hassan Fadlalla, one of Narrating Nubia Team Leaders, recently spoke with Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl, co-hosts of the Ufahamu Africa Podcast, about Sudan’s politics of identity and global connections based on her recent book, Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship (Stanford University Press, 2019). Listen to
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