Africa in Antiquity. The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan. Volume 1

Catalog of the exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, September 30 - December 31, 1978 and other places. — The Brooklyn Museum, 1978. — 143 p. — ISBN: 0-87273-065-4.In modern times, most people have assumed that in Africa the ancient world was limited to Egypt, and that sub-Saharan Africa had no historic past before the Portuguese contact in the sixteenth century. But there is a culture, perhaps as old as historic time itself, set geographically between the pyramids of Egypt and the jungles of central Africa. The cradle of this culture lies at the very confluence of the Blue and White Niles Neither Egyptian nor African, yet often both, this vigorous culture established itself in a harsh and unyielding environment. Throughout recorded history it lies at the outer edge, first of the ancient world, then at the edge of the Classical world, and then at the edge of the Christian world. It had its own prehistory, its own language, and its own anthropological and artistic development. Even as it stands at the outer edge of the known world, it is also a crossroads. It is a contact and transfer point between Africa and, each in its turn, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Christianity, and Islam. On this canvas that stretches from the first cataract of the Nile to the foothills of Ethiopia, this culture works out its own destiny — sometimes subjugated and sometimes as conqueror of the lands around it.Foreword (Michael Botwinick).
Geography and Population of the Nile Valley (William Y. Adams).
Nubian, Negro, Black, Nilotic? (Bruce G. Trigger).
A History of Archaeological Research in Nubia and the Sudan (Ahmed M. Ali Hakem).
Nubia before the New Kingdom (David O’Connor).
Egypt in Nubia during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms (Jean Leclant).
The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan Period (Karl-Heinz Priese).
The Kingdom of Kush: The Meroitic Period (Fritz Hintze).
The Ballana Culture and the Coming of Christianity (Bruce G. Trigger).
Medieval Nubia (William Y. Adams).
Ceramics (William Y. Adams).