Even a seemingly modest site can provide important clues for reconstructing past environments and climates," the researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Her travels across North Africa, particularly to Nubia and Egypt, have deeply influenced her work, and she continues to advocate for the recognition of African contributions to human history. The ...

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 ...

Winged Isis pectoral, Nubian, Napatan period, 538-519 B.C. (Image courtesy of Boston Museum of Fine Arts) Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, among America’s greatest art museums and, along with New York’s ...

Gazing at the curious markings on the stone behind the glass exhibit case, Arnold Lehman focuses on the recurrent ones that look like a familiar punctuation mark for anyone who’s taken even grade ...

The University Museum unveiled an extensive 300-piece exhibition called "Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa" last month. The collection traces the 3500-year history of Nubia, an ancient ...

The Kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia lasted over 1,000 years, and its legacy as an early African state remains a subject of great interest among scholars around the world. A conference organized by ...

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 ...

It’s a phrase uttered by many contemporary workers after a long day at the office, but new research shows that ancient cultures were probably using the alcoholic beverage to treat much more than the ...

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 ...