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Jul 5, 2011 · Professor Harry Smith was interviewed by Chris Naunton for the Egypt Exploration Society's Oral History Project in March 2009. Here Professor Smith talks abo...
Lower Nubia. Lower Nubia (also called Wawat) [1] [2] is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern Lake Nasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Many ancient Lower Nubian monuments, and all its modern population, were relocated as part of the International ...
Feb 2, 2024 · Professor Harry Smith was interviewed by Chris Naunton for the Egypt Exploration Society's Oral History Project in March 2009. This is the second part of an ...
Dr. Shomarka Keita, Research Affiliate in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, discusses race and antiquity through his perspective...
Nov 21, 2022 · The linguistic prehistory of Nubia. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. Abstract. Evidence from historical linguistics, philology, arc haeology, and, more rece ntly, genetics. enables us to reconstruct part of ...
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Nubia, ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt) eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to about Khartoum (in what is now Sudan ), and westward to the Libyan Desert. Nubia is traditionally divided into two regions.
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In 2016, the Nubian homelands are once again threatened by the planned construction of further dams in Sudanese Nubia. The Nubian Languages and Culture Project is assisting with safeguarding the intangible heritage and endangered languages of this ancient land, people and culture.
