Along the Nile, in what is now Sudan, archaeologists have uncovered evidence that children (some barely past infancy) were tattooed more than 1,400 years ago. Surprisingly, this breakthrough came from ...
A researcher has uncovered a set of historical records thought to have been lost during the Second World War, and the information contained in them has shed new light on an ancient people. Jenny ...
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Toddlers with facial tattoos: How Christianity expanded body art in Nile Valley civilizations
Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...
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 ...
The land of Nubia / Peter Lacovara -- The history of Nubia / Marjorie M. Fisher -- The early exploration and archaeology of Nubia / Peter Lacovara. Sidelight: the treasure of a Nubian queen / Peter ...
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Natural History Museum in London, August 29-30, 2012. ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. Sir ...
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