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Archaeologist Debora Heard discusses past approaches to understanding this ancient culture and why its importance in history was often unfairly overlooked.Un...
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- 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...
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Nubians ( / ˈnuːbiənz, ˈnjuː -/) ( Nobiin: Nobī, [9] Arabic: النوبيون) are a Nilo-Saharan ethnic group indigenous to the region which is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization. [10] .
Dec 28, 2022 · The mysterious rulers of Nubia, in present-day Sudan, erected hundreds of tombs and temples that rival Cairo’s. A “haboob” (sandstorm) rolls across the Meroë pyramids in Sudan.
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...
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Mar 31, 2024 · The Nubians were a people from the region south of Egypt, known today as Sudan. They had a profound influence on Egypt through various periods, most notably during the 25th Dynasty, when Nubian pharaohs ruled all of Egypt and revitalized its culture, religion, and political power.
