National Geographic - UK (2022-02)
At the base of Jabal Barkal, a sacred mountain and World Heritage site, workers dig to uncover one of Africa’s great civ- ilizat ...
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Schoolchildren visit the pyramid tombs of Kushite kings and queens at the ancient capital of Meroë. Under the dictatorship of Om ...
It had been just two and a half years since the 30-year Islamist dictatorship of Omar al Bashir fell in April 2019. The nation’s ...
the coup and the revolution, covering the work of National Geographic Society grantees who were excavating archaeological sites ...
N R e d Me dit err ane an^ S ea Lake Nasser Lake Nasser ASWAN Area of Egyptian HIGH DAM dominance (ca 1550–770 B.C.) Area of Egy ...
S e a GRAND ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE DAM ETH IOP IA ER ITR EA Port Sudan Kassala AFRICA SAHARA EUROPE A SI A Arab League member sta ...
The empire of Kush—known also as Nubia— was indeed once spectacular, but it was now mostly relegated to footnotes in books on an ...
Khartoum and earn a graduate degree in Europe. He returned to Sudan and has been excavating at Jabal Barkal and elsewhere for se ...
2 7 (Overleaf) Shabtis — statuettes crafted to perform menial tasks in the afterlife—from burial of Kushite king Nastasen, ca 3 ...
16 Ostrich-shell beads, 2nd-7th century A.D. Prehistoric stone hand axes, 9000-3000 B.C. Beads from Kushite burial, 4th century ...
RIGHT Badeaa Osman Mustafa and her grand daughter, Menna Abdulhamid, visit the remains of an Egyptian temple at the Sudan Nation ...
know their history, they can protect it.” Then I pose a delicate question: How do ethnic groups living in areas of Sudan that ne ...
The south flank of Jabal Barkal looms above an Islamic cemetery. Arab Muslim elites have long monopolized power in Sudan, but ma ...
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RIGHT A Sudanese family from Karima tours the nearby tombs of El Kurru, where some of the earliest Kushite leaders were buried i ...
played a pivotal role in the protests. “Whenever people see a young woman in the street fight- ing for Sudan, going into the str ...
From the peak of Jabal Barkal, young Sudanese survey the capital of Kushite ancestors as they chart an uncer- tain future. Can S ...
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