Archaeology in Sudan and Nubia has been greatly impacted by modern colonialism in
northeast Africa. In theory and practice, the discipline's history in the region includes …

Two recent documentaries promote a “Black Pharaohs” theme in which Kushite rulers
overthrew the superior Egyptians and ruled Egypt (Twenty-Fifth Dynasty), but the Egyptians …

Located 10 km south of the Third Cataract of the Nile River, the ancient city of Kerma was
once capital to the second largest state in Africa. The Eastern Cemetery at Kerma (∼ 4 km …

Postcolonial theory has been a major source of inspiration to recent approaches to New
Kingdom Nubia. These perspectives have now dismantled previous perceptions of ancient …

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their
legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore …

This chapter provides the historical background of ruling queens of Kush, a land that many
know only through the Bible. The omission of Kushite queens from an analysis of female …

This paper investigates different body techniques for carrying heavy loads by individuals
buried at Abu Fatima, a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery in Sudan. Drawing on iconographic …

This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture
of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation …

This paper examines the relationship between marginal Nubian communities—who are
culturally different and who occupy peripheral contexts—and the Kerma “pastoral state” in …

Egyptological and more popular perceptions of Nubia and the Kushite dynasty have framed
Kush as a periphery to civilized Egypt. But to what extent was Nubia a" backwater" to" effete …