RECURSOS PARA EL ESTUDIO DE LA ANTIGUA NUBIA

Ancient Africa´s Black Kingdoms

Ancient Civilization did not begin in what we think of as the West. It did not start in Europe, Rome, India, or Asia. Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa to inhabit all the continents except Antarctica, some 200,000 to 100,000 years ago.

Dig Nubia
Have you seen the digNubia traveling exhibit? Do you want to explore more? By following the links on the following pages, you can learn lots more about the things you saw in the digNubia exhibit.

Estudios Meroíticos

Meroitic Culture, Meroitic Language, Online Journals / Web Sites, Meroe: Meroitic Studies List

KUSH: Black Africa's Earliest Civilization
Exhibition. Before and simultaneous with the Egyptians, Kush civilization thrived along the Nile. Nubians ruled kingdoms that left their neighbors awestruck.

Nubia Museum in Aswan
In the early 1960's, when Egypt built the High Dam at Aswan, Egyptologists and archaeologists the world over heeded UNESCO's appeal to salvage the monuments of Egyptian Nubia before the rising waters of Lake Nasser submerged them forever.

The Nubia Salvage Project
The Oriental Institute participated in the UNESCO international salvage excavation project in the reservoir area of the Aswan High Dam in Upper Egypt in 1960-64.

The Faras Gallery. National Museum in Warsaw
The set of monuments on display in the Faras Gallery arrived in Poland from the Sudan with the Polish archaeological mission taking part in the large-scale international operation organized under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960-1964 with a view to rescuing the monuments of Nubia.

X International Conference in Nubian Studies

The International Conference in Nubian Studies is one of the most prestigious and long-lasting traditions within the fields on ancient civilization in the Mediterranean basin.