Egypt
- Remains Of Anicent Palace Discovered In Meroe
LiveScience (Owen Jarus) Hidden beneath an ancient palace in what is now central Sudan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest building in the city of Meroë, a structure that also may have housed royalty. The capital of a vast empire that flourished...
- Nubian Gallery At Royal Ontario Museum Re-opens
The Star (John Goddard) Before Barack Obama there was Taharqa. Last in a line of so-called Black Pharaohs, he ruled over ancient Egypt and beyond as king of the African civilization of Kush, the last black leader of a superpower before the current U.S....
- Island Of Meroe Added To World Heritage List
UNCESCO With photo. The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. The property consists...
- The Mysteries Of Meroe
New York Times (Souren Melikian) Agatha Christie could have invented the story. Imagine another Egypt, with a marked black African component. This is Meroe, in present-day Sudan. In art, ancient Egyptian deities appear alongside others, unknown elsewhere....
- 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"In a lecture at the Canadian Institute of Archaeology in Cairo last month, Krzys Grzymski of the Royal Ontario Museum...
Egypt
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 north to the Mediterranean Sea. Relatively little is known about these peoples. While Egypt hosts up to 200 foreign archeological teams a year, Sudan until recently has averaged 10 to 12.
Among the pioneers is Krzysztof Grzymski, head of world cultures at the Royal Ontario Museum . . . . First recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Meroe served as capital of the most politically sophisticated empire seen to that point in sub-Saharan Africa.
To the right of the highway, along a sandy ridge, stand more than 40 royal pyramids – some with their tops lopped off by Italian tomb raider Giuseppe Ferlini in 1833, others recently restored by German architect Friedrich Hinkel.
'I don't like digging graves,' Grzymski says. 'That's where you find all those treasures, I know. But I have a not very archeological attitude that we should leave the dead alone.'
Instead, he digs on the left of the highway, at Meroe's Royal City on the east bank of the Nile. To the inexperienced eye, the site looks strewn with rubble. But through Grzymski's eyes, scattered boulders resolve into grand staircases and sacred sphinxes. Low-lying walls rise to become palaces and temples, decorated with murals and graced by tree-lined avenues.
Grzysmki points out the temple to the god Amun, and indoor royal baths outfitted with ceramic pipes and covered in glazed tiles of Mediterranean hues."
"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 north to the Mediterranean Sea. Relatively little is known about these peoples. While Egypt hosts up to 200 foreign archeological teams a year, Sudan until recently has averaged 10 to 12.
Among the pioneers is Krzysztof Grzymski, head of world cultures at the Royal Ontario Museum . . . . First recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Meroe served as capital of the most politically sophisticated empire seen to that point in sub-Saharan Africa.
To the right of the highway, along a sandy ridge, stand more than 40 royal pyramids – some with their tops lopped off by Italian tomb raider Giuseppe Ferlini in 1833, others recently restored by German architect Friedrich Hinkel.
'I don't like digging graves,' Grzymski says. 'That's where you find all those treasures, I know. But I have a not very archeological attitude that we should leave the dead alone.'
Instead, he digs on the left of the highway, at Meroe's Royal City on the east bank of the Nile. To the inexperienced eye, the site looks strewn with rubble. But through Grzymski's eyes, scattered boulders resolve into grand staircases and sacred sphinxes. Low-lying walls rise to become palaces and temples, decorated with murals and graced by tree-lined avenues.
Grzysmki points out the temple to the god Amun, and indoor royal baths outfitted with ceramic pipes and covered in glazed tiles of Mediterranean hues."
- Remains Of Anicent Palace Discovered In Meroe
LiveScience (Owen Jarus) Hidden beneath an ancient palace in what is now central Sudan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest building in the city of Meroë, a structure that also may have housed royalty. The capital of a vast empire that flourished...
- Nubian Gallery At Royal Ontario Museum Re-opens
The Star (John Goddard) Before Barack Obama there was Taharqa. Last in a line of so-called Black Pharaohs, he ruled over ancient Egypt and beyond as king of the African civilization of Kush, the last black leader of a superpower before the current U.S....
- Island Of Meroe Added To World Heritage List
UNCESCO With photo. The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D. The property consists...
- The Mysteries Of Meroe
New York Times (Souren Melikian) Agatha Christie could have invented the story. Imagine another Egypt, with a marked black African component. This is Meroe, in present-day Sudan. In art, ancient Egyptian deities appear alongside others, unknown elsewhere....
- 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"In a lecture at the Canadian Institute of Archaeology in Cairo last month, Krzys Grzymski of the Royal Ontario Museum...