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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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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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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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 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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