On Saturday, October 22nd at 1pm EST the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center will be hosting a lecture by Ismail Elnour on community archaeology around the Jebel Barkal site. Zoom registration for the event can be found here.
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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 Friends of ASOR are hosting a webinar on September 29th at 6pm EDT on the bioarchaeology of the Nubia Expedition! The talk will feature Prof. Brenda J. Baker and be moderated by our own Prof. Geoff Emberling; registration for the event is now open and available here.
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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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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
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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