George Reisner gave the MFA the best collection of Nubian objects in the world. He also saddled it with a racist stain that the museum is determined to undo. In the early 20th century, the Harvard ...

Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary series on Cleopatra aims to spotlight powerful African queens. “We don’t often get to see or hear stories about Black queens, and that was really important ...

The construct of race was neither heard nor thought of during the two-thousand-year span included within the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of “Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa.” And yet ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Researchers had long understood that tattooing was a cultural practice in Nubia, a region along the Nile. However, poor ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals a fascinating and unusual practice from the ancient kingdom of Nubia. Archaeologists have uncovered ...

The expansiveness of the galleries immediately catches one's eye. That, and the way the Museum of Fine Arts uses a massive 10,000-square-foot exhibition called "Ancient Nubia Now" to set the record ...

Before we get to Nubian fashion, what does the word Nubian stands for. Nubia is a community whose ancestral home is Sudan and Egypt. The Nubians later moved to many other countries, including Kenya ...

Introduction : Egypt in Oxford -- Maps of Egypt and Nubia -- The Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods -- Dynastic Egypt, from the 4th to the 25th Dynasty -- From the late period to the Arab conquest ...

A researcher has uncovered a set of historical records thought to have been lost during the Second World War, and the information contained in them has shed new light on an ancient people. Jenny ...

When we think of exhibits of ancient civilizations, our minds inevitably turn to ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks or Romans. While these associations are understandable, they reflect a ...