When Sabrine El Hossam, one of Egypt’s leading percussionists, talks about Nubia, she doesn’t start with monuments or mythology. The multidisciplinary artist talks about the southern Egyptian region’s ...

A researcher has uncovered a set of historical records thought to have been lost during the Second World War, and the information contained in them has shed new light on an ancient people. Jenny ...

Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the University of Essex Dr. William Carruthers speaks at an event titled “Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People” ...

The Penn Museum is currently undergoing its largest renovation in the museum’s history. The Penn Museum’s renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries are the second part of the Penn Museum’s ...

This is the story of ancient Egypt's last act. Witness its dramatic final chapters: rescued from collapse by the Nubian kings of the 25th Dynasty, conquered by Alexander the Great, and transformed ...

"Due to a shared cultural background, common social and economic conditions and inherited building materials and techniques, slight variations distinguish the character of the majority of villages in ...

This piece received an honorable mention in the nonfiction category of the 2o24 Wallace Prize. Every inch of a typical Nubian home along the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt is covered in bright colors. In ...

WILLIAMSTOWN >> The letter has a sibilant sound, and in the drawing filling the wall it repeats like rippling water or depressions in the sand. When women walk down the street in Cairo, men make that ...