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Sep 23, 2021 · Nubian filmmaker Hafsa Amberkab is reclaiming the power of narrative by connecting younger generations to their language and culture that was lost in their drowned ancestral land. In the opening...
- How Did You First Become Interested in Nubia’s Queens?
- What Do We Know About The Role of Women in Ancient Nubia?
- How Does The Role of Women Shift During Each Kushite Kingdom?
- Do You Have A Favorite Kushite Queen?
- Why Have Scholars So Overlooked Ancient Nubia?
- Do You Feel Like That Attitude Is Changing?
- What Surprised You Most About Researching These Nubian Queens?
I think that Nubia, certainly in the African-American community and probably in the larger African diasporic community, has had an important place in the cultural understanding of ourselves as African people. I mean, there’s easily 100-plus years of African Americans studying and writing about ancient Egypt and Kush. There’s this expression on Blac...
They seem to have had a very profound ritual role. Throughout Nubia and also into Egypt, there are these really large prehistoric rock art depictions of voluptuous women, often decorated with swirling designs or triangle shapes. The fact that women could bear and bring forth life seems to have been very important to the ritual practice in the ancie...
It just gets better and better, and they become more and more powerful. We don’t know the names of any of the Kerma rulers. I think it’s assumed that they were all men. Elizabeth Minorhas written an article about one very high-status woman who was included as a subsidiary burial within one of those great Kerman tumulus burials. And we do see women ...
I do! Her name is Amanitore, and she ruled with her husband. And they just built so much, and so they’re really well-attested for throughout the Meroitic heartland, especially at a site called Naqa. There’s a whole series of temples dedicated primarily to the god Amun, who’s very tightly related to Kushite kingship. It was the golden age for the Ki...
You can’t just say I want to get a doctorate in Nubian history, language, culture. All of us who study ancient Nubia are trained as Egyptologists. And Egyptology has a very condescending and negative attitude toward Nubia. Since Egypt ruled Nubia as a colony for 500 years, the discipline absorbs and stresses the negative description of Nubia that w...
I think it is continuing. I’m certain the reason is that Egyptologists don’t receive any training about Nubia. That is part of what I will be changing as I become a professor at UCLA. I’m really hoping to grow an entire program where a student could elect to specialize in Nubian history. Having said that, I think several factors are shifting or ins...
What I loved the most, and I don’t know if it’s the same as being surprised, is that this period of almost exclusively back-to-back rule by women coincides 100 percent with what we call the Golden Age of Meroë. And to me, that’s really gratifying. It reinforces that rule by women can really amplify what is good about a culture. This interview has b...
- Sarah Durn
A Nubian woman circa 1900. Modern Nubians speak Nubian languages, Eastern Sudanic languages that is part of the Nilo-Saharan family. The Old Nubian language is attested from the 8th century, and is the oldest recorded language of Africa outside of the Afroasiatic family.
Jan 24, 2024 · Several Nubians have played a role in Egypt’s recent political history, notes journalist Samia Allam. Haj Ahmed Idris, credited with the October War code, hails from Nubia. Field Marshal Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, the former Egyptian minister of defence, also has Nubian roots.
Upon close examination of the history and culture of Nubia, it becomes apparent that women played an important role. Unlike the rest of the world at the time, women in Nubia exercised significant control. In the Nubian valley, worship of the queen of all goddesses, Isis, was paramount.
Jul 16, 2018 · The history of the darker-skinned Nubians in Egypt and their struggle to find a voice today. Nduta Waweru July 16, 2018. Nubian women at the Nubian Gharb Suheil village, near Aswan. Credit:...
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Oct 3, 2022 · Archaeologists once viewed ancient Nubia as separate from and inferior to Egypt. But research is now showing the Nubians had their own rich culture that powerfully influenced the land of the...
