THE middle of the 19th century was the heyday of Egyptology. Hieroglyphs had been deciphered and people could finally grasp the full richness of the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The pyramids, the ...

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In the sixth century, Nubia became one of Africa’s major early Christian regions. But its conversion was more a political project than a grassroots belief movement. The Christian Byzantine court made ...

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 ...

Photographer Chester Higgins talks about new discoveries about ancient Nubia, its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and legacy. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied Nubia’s ...

In approximately 1550 B.C., Egypt conquered its southern neighbor, ancient Nubia, and secured control of valuable trade routes. But rather than excluding the colonized people from management of the ...

Essays by Rita E. Freed and Lawrence M. Berman. AFA copy 39088019016229 Gift from Janet Stanley. "Ancient Nubia was home to a series of civilizations between the sixth millennium BCE and 350 CE that ...

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 ...

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 ...