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The term "Nubia" means many things to many people. In America it has come to be virtually synonymous with blackness and Africa. To ethnographers and linguists, it refers to a specific region straddling southern Egypt and northern Sudan, where black-skinned Nubians have traditionally lived. To archaeologists in the 1990s it is an ever-widening area of the Middle Nile Valley and surrounding deserts that extends approximately from Aswan in Egypt south to modern Khartoum, Sudan, and beyond. (Continue...)
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Black Pharaohs, the Kushite Empire, Ancient Pyramids at Giza and Temples of Abu Simbel |
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Henry Louis Gates' reflections on the Aswan Dam and a Nubian wedding |
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Perspectives on ancient Nubia, its people and heritage |
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Celebrate a Nubian wedding and discover Menhdi body decoration |
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Salamat explores the music of the Nubians with a pentatonic sound, African polyrhythms, Mediterranean melodies and a Cairo style. Buy the Wonders of the African World music CD in ShopPBS!
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