Egypt
- Canada's Indiana Jones In Sudan
Financial Post (Heidi Kingstone) Dr. Krzysztof Grzymski doesn't immediately strike you as an Indiana Jones type. But I can tell you that accidentally stumbling across the Royal Ontario Museum's senior curator by the 6th Nile Cataract in windswept...
- In The Reign Of The Black Pharaohs
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Our great grandfathers called it Ta-Seti, Land of the Bow. They were referring to the area south of the First Cataract at Aswan, and the reason behind the name was the unparalleled skill its inhabitants demonstrated...
- Archaeology At Meroe
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/219734 "More royal pyramids stand in the deserts of northern Sudan than in all of Egypt. For 3,000 years, a succession of African civilizations rose and fell along the Nile River in ancient Nubia, at one point expanding...
- African Archaeology Congress
http://www.mmegi.bw/2005/June/Thursday30/523129420885.html The 12th congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association will be hosted next month by the University of Botswana: "The Pan African Association for Archaeology and Related Studies (PAA)...
- Geological Development Of The Nile
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/688/eg2.htm Rushdi Said is something of a personal hero of mine - a geologist who has spent a considerable amount of time writing about the Nile's development since its first creation. This knowledge is central to...
Egypt
An African kingdom on the Nile
There are two articles by Jill Kamil, on the Al Ahram Weekly website this week, about Nubia:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he1.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he1.htm
"In a lecture at the Canadian Institute of Archaeology in Cairo last month, Krzys Grzymski of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) described the use of modern technology to uncover the origins and topography, history and development of Meroe, an African kingdom which developed along the upper reaches of the Nile about 200km north of Khartoum between 800 BC and 350 AD."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he2.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/798/he2.htm
"To appreciate the significance of this African kingdom, which once controlled important trade routes from central Africa to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and in the third century BC held sway over the Nile to within reach of Aswan, it is important to note that Egyptologists tend to regard Lower Nubia as Egyptian territory, virtually an extension of Egypt."
- Canada's Indiana Jones In Sudan
Financial Post (Heidi Kingstone) Dr. Krzysztof Grzymski doesn't immediately strike you as an Indiana Jones type. But I can tell you that accidentally stumbling across the Royal Ontario Museum's senior curator by the 6th Nile Cataract in windswept...
- In The Reign Of The Black Pharaohs
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) Our great grandfathers called it Ta-Seti, Land of the Bow. They were referring to the area south of the First Cataract at Aswan, and the reason behind the name was the unparalleled skill its inhabitants demonstrated...
- Archaeology At Meroe
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/219734 "More royal pyramids stand in the deserts of northern Sudan than in all of Egypt. For 3,000 years, a succession of African civilizations rose and fell along the Nile River in ancient Nubia, at one point expanding...
- African Archaeology Congress
http://www.mmegi.bw/2005/June/Thursday30/523129420885.html The 12th congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association will be hosted next month by the University of Botswana: "The Pan African Association for Archaeology and Related Studies (PAA)...
- Geological Development Of The Nile
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/688/eg2.htm Rushdi Said is something of a personal hero of mine - a geologist who has spent a considerable amount of time writing about the Nile's development since its first creation. This knowledge is central to...