This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

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 ...

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 Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the University of Essex Dr. William Carruthers speaks at an event titled “Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People” ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa explores new historical evidence of one of pre-colonial Dongola's earliest rulers. Previously considered semi-legendary, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ugandan strongman General Idi Amin raised the national profile of Uganda Nubians -- but they were persecuted soon after his ...