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Where in the World is Nubia? Maps and Activities
Africa Today. National Geographic, the world's leader geography education center, has a neat on-line atlas where you can print maps of Africa and other countries around the world.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/main.htmlSudan Today
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/Sudan_19884.gifEgypt Today
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/Egypt_19870.gifSite Maps of Egypt and Sudan/Nubia from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/INFO/MAP/SITE/ANE_Site_Maps.htmlSatellite Photographs of Egypt, Sudan, and the Nile River
Image shows geological features which determine the course of the Nile River
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/sc-sudan.gifImage of the Nile River at the sharp bend in the river called the 4th cataract in Sudan
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/nile2.htmlDakhla Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt, about 370 miles south of Cairo.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/dakhla.html
Image shows "outcrops of Nubian sandstone, the construction material used to build many of the Pharaohs' temples. Scientists are using radar imaging in desert areas to study structural geology, mineral exploration, ancient climates, water resources and ar chaeology."Giza Pyramids in Egypt
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/giza.htmlHere are several good images of Africa and the world.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Map_Satellite/menu_Map.html"What Do Maps Show" (Grades 5-8). Teaching Unit from the U.S. Geological Survey
http://info.er.usgs.gov/education/teacher/what-do-maps-show/index.htmlFor future use: Ali Dinar has provided a list of all African maps available for the CIA and a note about how to obtain these maps.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/CIA_Maps/menu_CIA.html
Where in Time is Nubia? Timelines and Activities
USING TIMELINES IN THE STUDY OF HISTORY
Why are dates important in the study of history?
What are the important dates in Nubia's historical development?
Examine some history timelines for Europe, Africa, especially Egypt, and other regions of the world?
Do you find reference to Nubia? Is Nubia distinguished from Egypt?
What does this say about how knowledge about history is constructed?
CONSTRUCT YOUR OWN HISTORY TIMELINE SHOWING NUBIA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER IMORTANT DATES IN WORLD AND AFRICAN HISTORY!
Here are some timelines to start with:
World History Timeline developed in conjunction with W.W. Norton's World Civilization
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/worldciv/referenc/wrldtime.htmAncient History . . . following in the footsteps of man
http://personal.jax.bellsouth.net/jax/t/m/tmlove2/main.html
A really good site created by someone who wanted "educate myself and others who happened to stumble by of real history and not history as it is taught from a school textbook." You can select a world history timeline, or look at timelines from geographica l areas (Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, etc.)Relative Chronology of Nubia and Egypt, (8000 BC-1600 AD, in 2 parts). PDF format.
http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/nubiaegy.pdf
Professor Peter A. Piccione of Northwestern University does a lot of the work for you in comparing Nubia and Egypt on this timeline! There is also a chronology of Egyptian civilization.
http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/B94chron.txt
Where in the Library is Nubia? Bibliography
Peter A. Piccione, ANCIENT NUBIA: A Selected Bibliography of Recent Works (revised 1/96)
http://www.library.nwu.edu/class/history/B94/nubiabib.html
Where in Museums is Nubia?
NOTE: LINKS ARE CLICK HERE FOR FULL TEXT
THE NEW NUBIA MUSEUM IN ASWAN
Opening of the Nubia Museum: A Comment from UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org.eg/prog/Cult/Nubia.htm
UNESCO played a pivotal role in the Nubian Monuments campaign in the 1950s and 1960s that rescued many important antiquities from the Aswan Dam flooding. UNESCO was also central in the development of this museum that opened in 1997. "The Nubia Museum wa s highly praised by all invitees and the media at large, which has extensively covered this unique event."The New Nubia Museum in Aswan
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem/4/4nubia.html
A Review by O. E. Kaper
"After lengthy preparations which involved great numbers of people and organisations, the new Nubia Museum has been built. It was formally opened by President Mubarak of Egypt on 23 November 1997, but some parts of the building will only be in operation a t a later date. The new museum is of major significance for Egyptian archaeology, for tourism in Egypt, and last (but not least) for the Nubian people."A Review by O. E. Kaper
"After lengthy preparations which involved great numbers of people and organisations, the new Nubia Museum has been built. It was formally opened by President Mubarak of Egypt on 23 November 1997, but some parts of the building will only be in operation a t a later date. The new museum is of major significance for Egyptian archaeology, for tourism in Egypt, and last (but not least) for the Nubian people."Archaeology, Volume 52, Number 4, July/August 1999
http://www.archaeology.org/
At The Museums: A Walk Through Time
By Angela M.H. Schuster
"More than 11,000 years ago, nomadic bands who had hunted and fished along the upper reaches of the Nile for millennia began settling in small hamlets along the river near its fourth cataract, where, at sites such as Nabta, archaeologists have found the remains of houses and tombs. It was small communities such as these that gave rise to the Nubian civilization, one of Africa's most dynamic cultures."
Where in Photos, Video, and Audio is Nubia?
THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Images of Sudan, including ancient pyramids in Meroe and monuments at Abu Simbel
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/SUDAN/Sudan_Gen.htmlFrom the Tom Van Eynde: Thebes Photographic Project:
Nubia
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/TVE_TPP/TVE_TPP_nubia_menu.htmlNubia
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/TVE_TPP/TVE_TPP_nubia_menu.htmlPhilae
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/TVE_TPP/TVE_TPP_philae_menu.htmlGebel el-Silsila East.
The sandstone rock quarries of Gebel el-Silsila are located about 152 kilometers south of Luxor on both the east and west banks of the Nile River. Gebel el-Silsila marks the geographical location in Nile Valley geology where the limestone rock formation t o the north gives way to primary sandstone formations to the south.
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/TVE_TPP/0726_81.htmlComing Soon from The Photographic Archives
http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/OI_PA.htmlThe 1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1100 Photographs)
The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is among the leaders in the recovery of the history, languages, and cultures of the ancient Near East. In the halcyon days of the 1930s, when universities and museums conducted expeditions on a scale now unheard of, Oriental Institute teams worked in nearly every country of the Near East. An integral part of each excavation was the expedition photographer, who was entrusted with capturing not only the routine of each day's work but also the moments of discovery and exploration. These images recount some of these memorable moments, as the Oriental Institute sifted the sands of time.
Where on the Internet is Nubia? World Wide Web Links
Nubia: The Land Upriver
Northwestern University's Professor Peter A. Piccione has developed an excellence overview of Nubia for his course, History B94: History of Ancient Egypt (http://www.library.nwu.edu /class/history/B94/). One section is called Nubia: The Land Upriver. We are including links to this valuable source. Here are the major sections and you can click on these topics and go to his site.I. The Geography of Nubia
II. Early History of Nubia: The Palaeolithic Era
III. Early History of Nubia: The Neolithic Era
IV. The Economic Importance of Nubia
V. The C-Group People
VI. The Kerma Culture: Early Kush
VII. Nubia in the Middle Kingdom
VIII. Nubia in the New Kingdom
IX. The Kingdom of Kush: Napata
X. The Kingdom of Kush: Meroe
ANCIENT NUBIA
http://library.advanced.org/22845/index.shtml
An excellent website prepared by students and placed as a semi-finalist in the international ThinkQuest contest. It is includes an overview and sections on geography and topology, climate and natural resources, and archaeological history. Online quiz an d a translator are unique aspects.K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet © By Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.htmlBe sure and check out the COUNTRY-SPECIFIC PAGE, especially the page for Sudan.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Sudan.htmlGeneral Information and Discussion
The Nubian Homepage- Akubakr Sidahmed
http://i-cias.com/private/abubakr/nubia/index.htmAfrocentric Debate Resource Homepage
http://www.he.net/~skyeagle/afro.htm"The Nile's Other Kingdom: Nubia, Not Egypt, May Have Been The First True African Civilization"
By Scott Macleod, Time, September 15, 1997 Vol. 150, No. 11
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970915/aarch.the_niles_oth.htmlConfounding experts, an ancient culture thrives in Egypt CNN Report.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9604/08/egypt.nubia/Sudan.net
Extensive site covering all aspects of Sudan history, life, and culture. Include, for example, digitized music and list of Sudan music websites. Many links.
http://www.sudan.net/Abubakr Sidahmed's Nubia Homepage
Extensive coverage of history and contemporary affairs
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/9435/Special Topics
The Role of Women in Nubia
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/USA/Afro-Amer/women_in_nubiaDecipering Meroitic
http://homepages.luc.edu/~cwinter/kush1.htmNubian Language
Article from the Encyclopedia of the Orient by Abubakr Sidahmed
http://i-cias.com/cgi-bin/eo-direct-frame.pl?http://i-cias.com/e.o/nubian_l.htm"The Feline: From Goddess to Pet"
The domestic cat may well have had its origins in ancient Nubia!
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/fl/pcto/feline.htmlReferences
Africana Studies Research page on Nubia
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/8192/nubia.htmlAnnual Egyptological Bibliography, published by the International Association of Egyptologists in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for the Near East. Special section on Nubian Studies. A Relative Chronology of Nubia and Egypt
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/aeb.htmlAdditional Images of Nubia
Images from Egypt with some relevance to Nubia
http://www.tulane.edu/lester/text/Ancient.World/Egypt/Egypt.htmlNubia Museum in Aswan
http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/preview.htmAncient Meroe: A Sudanese Civilization
http://orion.it.luc.edu/~cwinter/sudan2.htm"KUSH, Kingdoms on the Nile", highlights some of the rivalries and grievances which have been smoldering since the twilight of time. Based on the Institut du Monde Arabe exhibition.
http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/exhibiti/index_se.htmSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
WHAT IS ARCHAEOMETRY/ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE?
http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/ATAM/whatis.html"In its broadest sense, "archaeometry" (or "archaeological science") represents the interface between archaeology and the natural and physical sciences. This interdisciplinary field requires close collaboration between archaeologists, art historians, cura tors, and scientists who apply modern instrumental techniques to extract technological, cultural, and historical information from both inorganic and organic materials. "
Mummy Project. A project from the University of Illinois looking at mummies
http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/ATAM/mummy/home.htmlCYBERMUMMY
http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/cybermummy/
"One of the most spectacular artifacts housed at the World Heritage Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana is this mummy acquired in 1989 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. Unlock its secrets with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercompute r, and an archeologist."FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT A CAREER IN ARCHAEOLOGY
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/dlcfaq.html
Learning and Teaching with New Technologies
CENTER FOR ONLINE PROFESSION EDUCATION (COPE)
http://www.edc.org/LNT/home.htmL
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER, INC.COPE hosts an annual Leadership and New Technology summer institute at Harvard and its website has an excellent newsletter and library. The library http://www2.edc.org/urltrack/li brary.asp contains a current and future directions section and regularly updated coverage of the following topics: Developing and Implementing a Technology Plan, Building and Maintaining a Technology Infrastructure, Professional Development, Integrating Technology into Curriculum and Classroom Practices, Policy Issues, Funding and Assessment. Online courses are also offered. The section on integrating technology is particularly impressive: General Curriculum Integration Resources
Subject Area Resources for Curriculum Integration
Classroom Portraits
Curriculum Standards
Online Courses for Students
Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education.http://www.ed.gov/Technology
This site provides the views of the USDOE and educational resources for school personnel, parents, and students. WWW links, funding sources, after school activities, and other leads are provided.Report to the President on the Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/NSTC/PCAST/k-12ed.htmlFalling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/Released July 8, 1999. Third report in the Falling Through the Net series on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America. Key finding: " Information tools, such as the personal computer and the Internet, are increasingly critical to economic success and personal advancement. Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide finds that more Americans than ever have access to telephones, computers, and the Internet. At the same time, however, NTIA has found that there is still a significant "digital divide" separating American information "haves" and "have nots." Indeed, in many instances, the digital divide has widened in the last year."
Where in the Curriculum is Nubia?
EDSITEMENT, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. SO CHECK BACK OFTEN!
Included (as of 7/99) are the following websites http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites-lit.htm
National Geographic's website has downloadable maps, family expeditions to an exciting new destination each week, an exhibition hall, and a discussion of U.S. geography standards.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/xpeditions/main.htmlArt and Life in Africa Online which examines "African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples."
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/Perseus Project
Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/And their lesson plans http://edsitement.neh.gov/guides/g_intro.htm include "Women in Africa: Tradition and Change," "Historical Evidence," "Evaluating Eyewitness Reports," and "Mapping the Past."
K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet by Ali B. Ali-Dinar http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html
This is on the leading website for the study of Africa in the world. It got 1 million hits one month this year. Who says that learning about Africa is not popular! Teachers: This site has lesson plans and other important teaching and learning resources!SHARE YOUR LESSON PLAN OR LEARNING EXPERIENCE!
NubiaNet, Studying Nubia, and National School Reform
Share your lesson plan or learining experience! How do you think studying Nubia can help in meeting the goals of National, State, and Local standards and the objectives of school reform?
NubiaNet provides resources for studying about Nubia that address recently developed National Standards for History and standards in geography and other subjects. NubiaNet is intended to contribute to realizing these standards. Here is our brief summar y of the history standards, and links to additional information and resources.
NubiaNet is based a pedagogical approach aligned with the recently developed National Standards for History that seeks to promote these values:
Historical Understanding: History is a broadly integrative field, recounting and analyzing human aspirations and strivings in at least five spheres of human activity: social, scientific/technological, economic, political, and cultural (religious/philosophical/aesthetic).
Historical Thinking: The Standards advocate that students engage in active questioning and learning, not in the passive absorption of facts, names, and dates. Properly done, skills in five types of historical thinking should result: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretation, historical research capabilities, and historical issues-analysis and decision-making.
Subject Matter Content: The National Standards report states that "these five sets of Standards in Historical Thinking are defined . . . largely independent of historical content in order to specify the quality of thinking desired for each. It is essential to understand, however, that these skills do not develop, nor can they be practiced, in a vacuum. Every one of these skills requires historical content in order to function . . ." (p. 16) Making the specific subject matter content regarding ancient Nubia widely accessible for the first time lies at the heart of this project.
The National Standards in History propose as Topic 4 under "Standards in History for Grades K-4": "The History of Peoples of Many Cultures Around the World." It is suggested that students should understand selected attributes and historical devel opments of societies in such places as Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Our entire project, and especially the web site, will endeavor to provide access to materials that are not otherwise widely accessible. One key task which faced us and will f ace all teachers will be to select materials on Nubia that can provide a solid foundation for meeting the National Standards for Historical Understanding and Historical Thinking.
Similarly, Nubia materials can be used to meet the World History standards suggested for Grades 5-12, especially given the emphasis placed on "comparative civilizations." The following are excerpts from sections in which Nubia-related content cou ld be useful.
Era 2: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples,
4000-1000 BCEStandard 1: The major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley
Standard 2: How agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third and second millennia BCE
Standard 3: The political, social, and cultural consequences of population movements and militarization in Eurasia in the second millennium BCE
Standard 4: Major trends in Eurasia and Africa from 4000-1000 BCE
Era 3: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires,
1000 BCE-300 CEStandard 1: Innovation and change from 1000-600 BCE: horses, ships, iron, and monotheistic faith
Standard 2: The emergence of Aegean civilization and how interrelations developed among peoples of the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, 600-200 BCE
Standard 3: How major religions and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean basin, China, and India, 500 BCE-300 CE
Standard 4: The development of early agrarian civilizations in Mesoamerica
Standard 5: Major global trends from 1000 BCE-300 CE
WHERE TO FIND DISCUSSIONS AND COPIES OF NATIONAL STANDARDS
National Standards for History
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/hstocb.html
A comment from Gary B. Nash and Charlotte Crabtree who served as co-directors for the National Standards for History project.The Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.mcrel.org/standards/
has received national and international recognition for its work in standards-based education. Their resources include (a) Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (On-line Version) and (b) "Connections+" which consi sts of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards.Developing Educational Standards
http://putwest.boces.org/Standards.html
is an annotated list of internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks for the U.S. and for each state. Included also are lists of specialist resources for each subject matters area.
Something from the Field:Educators Sharing with Educators
Marcia Baynes, Co-Director, NubiaNet
"In a few months, the walls at the Kingsbury School will be filled with an exhibition of student portfolios about ancient Nubia, the African civilization that stretched along the Nile from Aswan in modern-day Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan . . . ." Read abo ut Marcia Baynes and her Nubia work with teachers and students in Memphis Public Schools.
About NubiaNet and Its History
ABOUT NUBIANET: MISSION, OBJECTIVES, AND HISTORY
NubiaNet has an interesting history. It developed initially as a collaboration between a parent (Ron Bailey) and a public school teacher (Marcia Baynes) who taught Bailey's daughter Malika in 6th grade. Their goal was to develop an outreach effort that could develop curriculum resources and inform community residents about Nubia, the focus of a permanent gallery that was being opened in Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1994.
As a result of that effort, many activities have been completed. Scholars, teachers, students, and community residents have participated in our activities and have played key roles in bringing knowledge about Nubia to classroom and community settings. The following links will share some of the highlights of our Nubia work.
1998-2000 NubiaNet: A Website and Resources for Study Ancient
African and World Civilizations funded by NEHCo-Hosts, Ninth International Conference of Nubia Studies and a Community Forum (with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, funded by NEH)
1995 5-hour teleconference, "Nubia, Ancient and Majestic" broadcast over MCET (Massachusetts Educational Telecommunications Network. Produced by Michelle Halsell, hosted by Marcia Baynes)
1994 Nubia Institute (funded by NEH, ES-22644-94).
1994-1996 Planning for a Documentary on Nubia (Funded by NEH 25129-95). With Judith McCray, Juneteenth Productions
1993 Nubia Institute (Funded by NEH, ES-22447-92)
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