Documentaries
The Seven Cows of the Shilluk King
Published on Feb 14, 2013 Our truck blew up in the desert in Sudan. We walked for a hundred kilometres without a drop to drink. We were taken in by King Shilluk’s sentries. During the […]
Sudan History
Documentaries
The Nubas of Fungor/Les Nubas de Fungor
Published on Feb 17, 2013 – Spectacular footage of the naked Nubas girls dancing the day before the arabs oblige them to dress. Today, they are all in rags if not enslaved or massacred. (1978)
Sudan History
The Nubian history – Henry Louis Gates (Harvard University)
Published on Mar 20, 2017 Translated by Hadi Portsudan – الحضارة النوبية السودانية Nadus for Social networking and enlightenment
Sudan History
Nubia (Egypt was weak and divided in the 11th century b.c.e., and Kush became autonomous for the next 300 years)
Nubia Nubia Egypt provides the earliest historical record of northern Sudan, the land of Kush at the First Cataract. The Egyptian name for Nubia was Kush, meaning “wretched”. Kush encompassed modern-day northern Sudan and southern […]
Sudan History
Meroë (Sudan)
Meroë Evidence of civilization in Meroë, now part of Sudan and then called Nubia, has existed from about the eighth millennium b.c.e. The culture was fated to live in the shadow of Egypt of the […]
Sudan History
Kushite Kingdom
Ancient World History The Ancient World Prehistoric Eras to 600 c.e. Kushite Kingdom The Kushite kingdom flourished in the northern part of present-day Sudan (called Nubia by the Romans) and southern Egypt. From their capital […]