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Archeology

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A Mighty Faith

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores the complexities of spirituality in ancient Kemet. It runs through January 19, 2026. From the MET: "Over Egypt’s long history, its belief system grew to include more than 1,500 gods with many overlapping forms and

Remember Nubia

From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan exhibit runs at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles until April 3, 2023. | From the Getty Villa / "For nearly 3,000 years a series of kingdoms flourished in ancient Nubia (present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan)

What Have We Here?

What Have We Here?

Archeologists find Hekashepes, whose mummified remains might be the oldest ever. | From CBS News / Egyptian archaeologists who have spent years meticulously excavating a site amid the ancient ruins of Saqqara, near Cairo, announced a number of major discoveries on Thursday dating to the fifth and sixth dynasties of Egypt'

Dig This.

Zeinab Mohammed Salih and Jason Burke report on the growing number of homegrown African archeologists. | Via The Guardian/ "Heading down one staircase are Sabrine Jamal, Nadia Musa, Athar Bela and Sabrine al-Sadiq, all studying archaeology at Khartoum University. Not one of them is older than 24 and they see