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Ancient Nubians Tattooed Toddlers 1,400 Years Ago and It’s Not Really Clear Why

Ancient Nubian tattoos on children reshape ideas about belief, care, and the body. Along the Nile, in what is now Sudan, ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

1,400 years ago, Nubians tattooed babies to mark their Christian faith

Infants and children in Nubia not only received multiple tattoos, which shocked researchers, but the practice also predated ...
Morning Overview on MSN

1,400-year-old Nubian toddler tattoos are baffling researchers

The 1,400-year-old Nubian toddler tattoos are not isolated curiosities but part of a broader pattern of body marking that is ...
Newsweek

Thought Lost in WW2, Records Discovery Reveals Secrets of Ancient People

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 ...
insider.si.edu

Ancient Nubia : African kingdoms on the Nile / edited by Marjorie M. Fisher ... [et al.] ; with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr

The land of Nubia / Peter Lacovara -- The history of Nubia / Marjorie M. Fisher -- The early exploration and archaeology of Nubia / Peter Lacovara. Sidelight: the treasure of a Nubian queen / Peter ...
Al-Monitor

Copts, Nubians, and Berbers fight to keep Egypt’s endangered languages alive

CAIRO — Far from Egypt’s busy capital, minority communities are struggling to preserve and protect their unique culture and languages from extinction. With a population of over 118 million, Egypt is ...