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 ...

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 ...

AUC Press has grown to be the largest English-language academic book publisher in the Middle East, and books on Egyptology have consistently topped its best seller list. Explore selections from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join us on a thrilling journey to Kom Ombo, one of Egypt’s most unusual temples—home to the crocodile god Sobek. Explore its ...

Most people think of ancient Nubia, if they think of it at all, as a poor imitation and perpetual vassal of Pharaonic Egypt. Archaeological discoveries in recent decades have proved them wrong, ...