Egypt
- Online Resource: Before The Pyramids
Oriental Institute Thanks to Ancient World Online for the above link. Newly available from the Oriental Institute: Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Edited by Emily Teeter...
- Unesco Celebrates 1960s Nubian Salvage Project
ANSA Med UNESCO is commemorating the mammoth combined effort by archaeologists, engineers and researchers from across the globe which led to the salvaging of extraordinary temples and Pharaonicc monuments which would otherwise have disappeared under the...
- Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago - Nubian Gallery
Time Out The institute has expanded its offerings with a new gallery focused on ancient Nubia, the area that is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The artifacts, many of which are on public display for the first time, go as far back as 6,000 years....
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...
Egypt
Ancient Nubia in Chicago
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/060216/nubia.shtml
"Some of the world’s most significant artifacts from Nubia, an ancient African civilization that had important connections to Egypt, will go on display Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Museum of the Oriental Institute at the University. Many of the artifacts, including one of the world’s oldest saddles, will be on display for the first time as the museum opens the Robert F. Picken Family Nubian Gallery. Photographs taken during University expeditions 100 years ago in Nubia, now Sudan, also will be on display. . . . From 1960 to 1968, teams from the Oriental Institute worked intensively in the Nubian Salvage project, excavating numerous archaeological sites in both Egypt and Sudan in a race against the flooding of this part of the Nile valley, as construction of the Aswan High Dam was about to begin, said Stein. . . . The 650 pieces that will be on display are drawn from the 15,000 artifacts brought back from the salvage operation and represent a broad time period."
The article, with photographs, describes some of the artefacts and explains how they present a view of Nubian life at different periods of time, explaining the relationship with Egypt, but emphasising the Nubian culture's unique development and distinctive facets.
The website for the Museum of the Oriental Institute (Chicago, U.S.) can be found at:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/OI_Museum.html
- Online Resource: Before The Pyramids
Oriental Institute Thanks to Ancient World Online for the above link. Newly available from the Oriental Institute: Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization. Edited by Emily Teeter...
- Unesco Celebrates 1960s Nubian Salvage Project
ANSA Med UNESCO is commemorating the mammoth combined effort by archaeologists, engineers and researchers from across the globe which led to the salvaging of extraordinary temples and Pharaonicc monuments which would otherwise have disappeared under the...
- Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago - Nubian Gallery
Time Out The institute has expanded its offerings with a new gallery focused on ancient Nubia, the area that is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan. The artifacts, many of which are on public display for the first time, go as far back as 6,000 years....
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...
- More Re Nubian Gallery At The Oriental Institute
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14018554.htm A nice review of the new permanent Nubian exhibition at the Oriental Institute in Chicago: "Some of the works on display, culled from the museum's 15,000-piece Nubian collection, are...