Real Sudan

23/07/2024

Sudan included in this, an interesting presentation by Huda Magzoub and Dr. Julia Budka which gives fresh perspectives on interaction between ancient Egypt - Nubia - Sudan)

Excellent SASA (Save Ancient Studies Alliance) online conference held this week is now available on YouTube. Many interesting presentations including two on Egypt that are especially worth watching:

DAY 1
Session 1 - Modern Projects on the Past

The Munich University Attab to Ferka Survey Project 2018-2023: Archaeology, gold, and landscape
Huda Magzoub and Dr. Julia Budka

Session 2 - Mythology and Religion Over Time
Rediscovering the World of Cleopatra
Dr. Sara Davis-Leonard

🎞️Video links:

Day 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n00Y3rblYA&t=34s
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSg-zujdQ7k

Day 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ojaO6ZD7w

Schedule https://docs.google.com/document/d/18K26vQnleXspUuIQRO4-O2BKQOsW2QVdmGQNYEHOQY0/edit?usp=sharing

Program https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZVFvOAS6HyMaNs5VaykuIEqmDwViDMM/view

22/07/2024

TODAY 22nd July 2024

Day 2 of the excellent FREE online conference by SASA (Save Ancient Studies Alliance)
"Opening the Ancient World" (translations between English, Spanish and Arabic)

The conference includes talks about Egypt and Sudan, recent research and discoveries.

from 10 AM EDT
watch at saveancientstudies.org/virtual-conference
or youtube.com/

Images: our favourite presentation yesterday. Happy to see Sudan in this positive presentation.
We hope to resume tours there some day, meanwhile we applaud the ongoing research connected to Sudan.





Save Ancient Studies Alliance - Ancient Studies in North Texas Network

10/07/2024

Five films related to Sudan recently screened at the excellent SAFAR film festival in England.

"On Friday 28 June, our guest curator Talal Afifi, Founder of Sudan Film Factory and Sudan Film Festival in Khartoum, presented "Sudanese Cinema: Unfinished Journeys – Endless Dreams", two evenings dedicated to showcasing Sudanese films spanning from the 1970s and 1980s to contemporary works reflecting the aftermath of the 2019 revolution.

"Window To Renewed Hope" screened 5 shorts made in the last few years exploring themes ranging from family and tradition, the revolution and its aftermath, everyday heroes, and the sometimes brutal conditions of working people in the country.

This panel discussion invited a selection of the filmmakers featured and industry members working in Sudanese cinema to discuss their films, the history and current context of filmmaking in Sudan and much more.

You can watch this panel on Youtube

SAFAR Film Festival, 2024. Sudanese Cinema: Unfinished Journeys, Endless DreamsWindow to Renewed Hope – Panel DiscussionCurated by Talal AfifiCine Lumiere, I...

04/04/2024

"Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.

In 1862, Tinne embarked on a boat journey along the Nile in search of the river's sources. The photographs she took in the village of Gondokoro were discovered in 2021. They depict everyday scenes in a world that was then unfamiliar to Western eyes."

Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.

13/02/2024

Although we are not currently leading tours in Sudan, we hope to in future.

Meanwhile we share this thanks to Ancient Egypt and Sudan at The Manchester Museum which is really worth following on Facebook if you are interested in the history of these countries.

Just too late for , a great article on Mohammedani Ibrahim, one of the first Egyptian-born archaeological photographers, who took this haunting shot of the 3900 year old statue of Lady Sennuwy emerging from excavations at Kerma, Sudan

https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/September-2021/Egyptology-s-Eloquent-Eye

08/11/2023

Mennat-Allah El Dorry (éd.)
Food and Drink in Egypt and Sudan
Selected Studies in Archaeology, Culture, and History

The study of historic foodways is as multifaceted and varied as food itself. The changes we see in food habits and choices over history reveal evolving social and political climates and help us envision our ancestors’ everyday lives and imagined afterlives. Food certainly played a role in funerary rites; it was offered to the dead, of course, but also shared at the grave among the living family members, symbolically bridging between this world and the next. Choosing the food was embedded in a series of traditions and norms; how it relates to what was actually eaten in associated settlements enables an understanding of its meaning. Feasts, whether for the dead or the living, were laden with political and social meaning. Fasting, although requiring abstention from certain foods, also involves the management—from sourcing and storing to cooking and eating—of the permitted foods, a key concern in contexts such as monasteries where fasting occurred.

This collective work demonstrates the diversity of possible approaches to food. It presents the current state of research on the foodways of Egypt and Sudan and highlights the importance of further interdisciplinary collaboration for a “big picture” approach. It brings together 16 articles covering archaeology (in the broadest sense), theory, anthropology, language, ethnography, and architecture to illustrate food traditions and history in Egypt and Sudan from as early as the 4th millennium BC to the 20th century.

https://www.ifao.egnet.net/publications/catalogue/?fbclid=IwAR21RdrzOpmC360XQKe51tF5Pvk28mWkDz8RZY2ZqzYqnxhTlGMMqPkacuM

12/10/2023

🔸Polychromatic, gilded glass goblet of Meroitic manufacture excavated in Sedeinga, on display at the National Museum of Sudan. The Greek letters read “Drink and you shall live”. 3rd century AD

06/07/2023

Our guests made videos of their Real Sudan tour. While we wait for the situation in Sudan to improve so we can take you there again, we will continue to share videos, books and other information about Sudan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIk41qqeBJo

19/06/2023

As tours to Sudan are currently not possible, we thought friends of Real Sudan may like to hear about recent films from Sudan.
Watching Sudanese films and learning more about life there is a way to support Sudanese culture while the country and people are going through challenging times.

Director Mohamed Kordofani’s debut feature ‘Goodbye Julia’ made history last month by becoming the first Sudanese film to compete in the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection. The film made its world premiere as part of the festival’s Un Certain Regard section, dedicated to alternative...

18/06/2023

Real Sudan is part of Real Egypt and now on TikTok.
Please join us there for news and information on what we can offer you in Egypt, Dahabiya Nile Sailing, Sudan and Jordan.

If you are touring with us and post to your own TikTok we'd be delighted if you tag us in your posts.

14/04/2023

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/01/project-to-revitalize-the-oldest-mosque-in-sudan/

14/04/2023

Exciting list of speakers, and for anyone interested in Sudan there are subjects that could interest you in this colloquium on 13th May.

We have an exciting line-up of speakers for this year's SARS Colloquium! Check out the schedule below and book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/w-y-adams-colloquium-sudan-past-and-present-tickets-557721278357

23/03/2023

For those interested in research about Sudan, this conference has a two-day format and the opportunity to opt-in to extra activities in Italy.

For more information and to secure your spot: https://www.sudan-conference.com/post/open-letter-2023

We are excited to announce our first keynote speaker for the 7th Sudan Studies Research Conference in Naples will be Mahmoud Suliman Mohamed Bashir!

Mahmoud Suliman Mohamed Bashir graduated from Dongola University in 1997. He then received a High Diploma in Folklore from Khartoum University in 1998 and an MA (2006) and PhD (2015) at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Bergen, Norway. Since 1998, he has worked as an Antiquities Inspector at the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM). He has been involved in many archaeological investigations, surveys and excavations throughout Sudan. He is the Co-director of the Qatari Mission for the Pyramids of Sudan (since 2012), the Resident Manager of the World Heritage Site of the Island of Meroe and the Director of Antiquities of the River Nile State (since 2015).
https://www.facebook.com/sudanpyramids http://www.youtube.com/

09/03/2023

If you are interested in current archaeology in Sudan, Diverse Nile project is worth following on Twitter.

09/03/2023

"Life and Death at a Nubian Monastery
The Collected Funerary Epigraphy from Ghazali" (Sudan) by Grzegorz Ochała.

Information: bit.ly/3lzswff

Thanks to Brepols

29/11/2022

Between 1960-1968, the OI participated in the Nubian Salvage Campaign in Egyptian and Sudanese Nubia, conducting excavations and publishing the results of these excavations as the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition (https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oriental-institute-nubian-expedition-oine). This week we will look at some of the different objects found in the course of those excavations. ⁠
Here we have a finely decorated pot from a grave at the site of Semna South, now located in the Sudan. Originally built as a Middle Kingdom fortress, Semna was used as a cemetery in the Meroitic period. The well-preserved pot was found in the grave. It was decorated with the depictions of a number of animals, namely a guinea fowl, a rabbit, and a hyena. The significance of the animals is unclear, although it has been suggested that they might represent a story that is no longer preserved. ⁠
E35579, baked clay, Nubia, Meroitic period (200-250 CE)