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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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
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 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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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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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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