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The Nubians of ancient Sudan left behind artwork as fine as the Egyptians’. Now it’s on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. ... Art: The Glory of the Nubians. Through Jan. 20; mfa.org.
In the early 20th century, the Harvard archeologist George Reisner uncovered dozens of pyramids and temples in Sudan’s Nubian desert. Sifting his findings to send home to the Museum of Fine Arts ...
This year, six people have been killed by police and more than a dozen imprisoned for opposing the project, which Sudan's Nubians see as an Arab assault on their 5,000-year-old culture. "We exist ...
More painful, though not treated in the exhibition, is the current situation of Sudan, which only became independent from British colonial rule in 1956.
By Mo Hashim 19 October 2011 (LONDON) – The Benaki Museum for Islamic Arts is located in a busy road in the tourist-packed Monistraki district of Athens, the Greek capital. Under the Acropolis ...
As Egypt built its High Dam, Sudan’s Nubian valleys quietly disappeared underwater, displacing thousands, burying ancient ...
Mohamed Altoum had faint childhood memories of his father’s stories about their Nubian culture from their ancestral village in north Sudan. Yet when his father, Osman, an accountant who also ...
The construct of race was neither heard nor thought of during the two-thousand-year span included within the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of “Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa ...
Speak the name of Egypt, and myriad associations come to mind: the pyramids, the pharaohs, the sphinx, the hieroglyphics, the gold. Speak the name of ancient Nubia, Egypt’s neighbor, and chances ...