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Ancient Nubia

Author : Marjorie M. Fisher
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649033974
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Nubia written by Marjorie M. Fisher and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan and named a 2012 American Publishers (PROSE) Awards winner for Best Archaeology & Anthropology Book For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration. Over the past century, particularly during this last generation, scholars have begun to focus more attention on the fascinating cultures of ancient Nubia, ironically prompted by the construction of large dams that have flooded vast tracts of the ancient land. This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and thereby to give us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.

Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt

Author : Aleya Rouchdy
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nubians and the Nubian Language in Contemporary Egypt written by Aleya Rouchdy and published by Brill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The displacement of the Egyptian Nubians from their ancient lands and their resettlement deeper in the land of Egypt in 1964 had an impact on Nubian culture and the Nubian language. Contemporary Egyptian Nubian consists of two dialects, Fadicca and Matoki. After the resettlement of Nubians, the interactions between speakers of the two Nubian dialects and speakers of Arabic increased. Nubian, an East Sudanic language, came into contact with a dominant Semitic language, Arabic. How has this increased contact affected the Nubian language in Egypt? The aim of this work is to examine from the perspective of a 'language-contact situation' the impact of the resettlement on the future of the Nubian language. The comparative data on the Nubian situation will add an important contribution to our fund of knowledge on processes of language contact. This is the first sociolinguistic study of the Nubian language from such a perspective.

Handbook of Ancient Nubia

Author : Dietrich Raue
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110420384
Total Pages : 1133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Ancient Nubia written by Dietrich Raue and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous research projects have studied the Nubian cultures of Sudan and Egypt over the last thirty years, leading to significant new insights. The contributions to this handbook illuminate our current understanding of the cultural history of this fascinating region, including its interconnections to the natural world.

Jewels of Ancient Nubia

Author : Yvonne J. Markowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878468072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Jewels of Ancient Nubia written by Yvonne J. Markowitz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative history on the exquisite jewelry of ancient Nubia Located at the intersection of trade routes from central Africa, the ancient Near East and the Classical world, ancient Nubia ruled the entire Nile Valley at the height of its power in the eighth century B.C. Its neighbor and frequent rival Egypt called it the gold lands because its territories held such an abundance of the precious metal, and because its inhabitants produced some of the most finely crafted jewelry of the ancient world. This book features over 100 adornments and personal accessories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which houses the finest collection of Nubian jewelry outside Khartoum. The first comprehensive introduction to the sophisticated jewels of this great empire, it reveals how Nubian artisans employed techniques that would not be reinvented in Europe for another two thousand years, and how the original owners valued such possessions not only for their inherent beauty, but also because they were imbued with magical meanings. Exquisite photography and an authoritative history written by leading experts make this book essential for both jewelry aficionados and anyone interested in the great cultures of the ancient world.

Ancient Nubia

Author : David B. O'Connor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Nubia written by David B. O'Connor and published by University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology. This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ancient Nubia ... will introduce you to the peoples and culture of the ancient land of Nubia. A civilization sometimes threatened by, but more often competitive with, its more powerful northern neighbor, Egypt. Ancient Nubia had an identitiy and a diversity of tradition that is extraordinary to investigate."--Cover.

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia

Author : Geoff Emberling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190496274
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia written by Geoff Emberling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the region's role as neighbor, trade partner, and enemy of ancient Egypt. Increasingly, however, ancient Nile-based Nubian cultures are recognized in their own right as the earliest complex societies in inner Africa. As agro-pastoral cultures, Nubian settlement, economy, political organization, and religious ideologies were often organized differently from those of the urban, bureaucratic, and predominantly agricultural states of Egypt and the ancient Near East. Nubian societies are thus of great interest in comparative study, and are also recognized for their broader impact on the histories of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia brings together chapters by an international group of scholars on a wide variety of topics that relate to the history and archaeology of the region. After important introductory chapters on the history of research in Nubia and on its climate and physical environment, the largest part of the volume focuses on the sequence of cultures that lead almost to the present day. Several cross-cutting themes are woven through these chapters, including essays on desert cultures and on Nubians in Egypt. Eleven final chapters synthesize subjects across all historical phases, including gender and the body, economy and trade, landscape archaeology, iron working, and stone quarrying.

The Nubian Past

Author : David N. Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134200862
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book The Nubian Past written by David N. Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in this field. The geographical range of the book extends through the Nubian north, the Middle Nile Basin, and includes what has become the modern Sudan. Using period-based chapters, the region's long-term history is traced and a potential for a more broadly framed and inclusive 'historical archaeology' of Sudan's more recent past is explored. This text breaks new ground in its move beyond the Egyptocentric and more traditional culture-histories of Nubia, often isolated in Africanist research, and it relocates the early civilizations and their archaeology within their Sudanic Africa context. This is a captivating study of the area's history, and will inform and enthral all students and researchers of Archaeology and Egyptology.

Daily Life of the Nubians

Author : Robert Steven Bianchi
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life of the Nubians written by Robert Steven Bianchi and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable and unique resource for students researching the oldest known black African civilization, the Nubians.

The Nubian Exodus

Author : Hassan Dafalla
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nubian Exodus written by Hassan Dafalla and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1975 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People

Author : Robert Alan Fernea
Publisher : Austin : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People written by Robert Alan Fernea and published by Austin : University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos by George Gerster; notes on Nubian architecture and architectural drawings by Horst Jaritz; Forward by Laila Shukry El Hamamsy; Captions by Hamza El din and Elizabeth Warnock Fernea; Additional Photos by Abdul Fattah Eid.

The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia

Author : Derek A. Welsby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia written by Derek A. Welsby and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nubia had a rich pagan heritage, stretching back thousands of years. During probably the 6th century AD various factors led to the adoption of Christianity. This book charts this huge cultural transition and its impact.

Ancient Nubia

Author : P.L. Shinnie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136164650
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Nubia written by P.L. Shinnie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known.

Aksum and Nubia

Author : George Hatke
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476066X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Aksum and Nubia written by George Hatke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which the Nubian kingdom of Kush came to focus its energies on the Nile Valley, relying on this as its main route of contact with the outside world, while Aksum was oriented towards the Red Sea and Arabia. In this way Aksum and Kush coexisted in peace for most of their history, and such contact as they maintained with each other was limited to small-scale commerce. Only in the fourth century CE did Aksum take up arms against Kush, and even then the conflict seems to have been related mainly to security issues on Aksum’s western frontier. Although Aksum never managed to hold onto Kush for long, much less dealt the final death-blow to the Nubian kingdom, as is often believed, claims to Kush continued to play a role in Aksumite royal ideology as late as the sixth century. Aksum and Nubia critically examines the extent to which relations between two ancient African states were influenced by warfare, commerce, and political fictions.

The Nubians of West Aswan

Author : Anne M. Jennings
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555875923
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Nubians of West Aswan written by Anne M. Jennings and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flooded Pasts

Author : William Carruthers
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766465
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Flooded Pasts written by William Carruthers and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its aftermath not only propelled archaeology into the postwar world but also helped to "recolonize" it. In this book, William Carruthers asks how postwar decolonization took shape and what role a colonial discipline like archaeology—forged in the crucible of imperialism—played as the "new nations" asserted themselves in the face of the global Cold War. As the Aswan High Dam became the centerpiece of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egyptian revolution, the Nubian campaign sought to salvage and preserve ancient temples and archaeological sites from the new barrage's floodwaters. Conducted in the neighboring regions of Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, the project built on years of Nubian archaeological work conducted under British occupation and influence. During that process, the campaign drew on the scientific racism that guided those earlier surveys, helping to consign Nubians themselves to state-led resettlement and modernization programs, even as UNESCO created a picturesque archaeological landscape fit for global media and tourist consumption. Flooded Pasts describes how colonial archaeological and anthropological practices—and particularly their archival and documentary manifestations—created an ancient Nubia severed from the region's population. As a result, the Nubian campaign not only became fundamental to the creation of UNESCO's 1972 World Heritage Convention but also exposed questions about the goals of archaeology and heritage and whether the colonial origins of these fields will ever be overcome.

The Old Nubian Language

Author : Eugenia Smagina
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1947447181
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Old Nubian Language written by Eugenia Smagina and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugenia Smagina first published her grammar of the Old Nubian language in 1986 in Russian. For more than thirty years the work has remained untranslated, even though the late Gerald M. Browne affirmed that "this lucid, well-argued presentation should be available to all Nubiologists and ought therefore be translated into a western language." Slavicist José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente has prepared a first English translation of this concise but indispensable work, which forms a necessary counterpart to Browne's classical Old Nubian Grammar. The grammar is divided into sections on script, lexicon, morphology, and syntax, and is followed by the analysis of a sample text, known as The Miracle of St. Menas.Smagina's The Old Nubian Language provides an excellent first introduction into the grammar of this medieval Nilo-Saharan language.

Nights of Musk

Author : Haggag Hassan Oddoul
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774162169
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Nights of Musk written by Haggag Hassan Oddoul and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories speak of the demise of traditional Nubian life and culture. While the temples of Abu Simbel were relocated before dam-building, the drowning of the ancient heartland of the Nubian people along the banks of the Nile went largely unnoticed. Haggag Oddoul documents the personal tragedy of social transformation.