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Kerma was the capital city of the Kerma culture, which was founded in present-day Sudan before 3500 BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Kerma is one of the largest archaeological sites in ancient Nubia . It has produced decades of extensive excavations and research, including thousands of graves and tombs and the residential quarters of the main city surrounding ...
6th-century BC Nubian women (12 P) 7th-century BC Nubian women (6 P) N. Nubian women in warfare (2 P) Q. Queens of Kush (1 C, 34 P)
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
Neolithic settlements have been found in the central Nubian region dating back to 7000 BC, with Wadi Halfa believed to be the oldest settlement in the central Nile valley. [13] Parts of Nubia, particularly Lower Nubia, were at times a part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt and at other times a rival state representing parts of Meroë or the Kingdom of ...
The Christian Nubian society was matrilineal [196] and women enjoyed a high social standing. [197] The matrilineal succession gave the queen mother and the sister of the current king as forthcoming queen mother great political relevance. [196] This importance is attested by the fact that she constantly appears in legal documents. [198]
In 2014, Natalina Yacoub, at the time a student at Ahfad University for Women, was chosen as Nuba Beauty Queen and subsequently gave the first TEDx talk of a Nuba person. [13] Being a member of the Christian minority in Sudan , she presented a Christmas gift on 24 December 2019 to then-Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok , who subsequently tweeted ...
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With each inundation the situation worsened and in the 1960s the island was submerged up to a third of the buildings all year round. [ 22 ] The work began in 1972, and in 1974 a large coffer dam was built, [ 23 ] constructed of two rows of steel plates between which a 1 million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet ) of sand was tipped.