Marjorie M. Fisher is adjunct assistant professor of Egyptology at the University of Michigan. Peter Lacovara is director of the Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund. He was formerly senior curator of ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University. He is co-editor of Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile (AUC Press, 2012). Salima Ikram is distinguished professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. She has directed the Animal Mummy Project and the North Kharga Darb Ain Amur Survey, among other truly exciting projects and excavations, throughout Egypt and in Turkey, Sudan, and Greece. She has worked in museums around the world, including the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. She has published extensively, for both scholarly and general audiences.Sue D'Auria is a former associate curator at the Huntington Museum of Art. Chester Higgins Jr. is a world-renowned photographer and author of six books of photography whose work has appeared in ART- news, Essence, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.Zahi Hawass is one of the world's best known Egyptologists, former Egyptian minister of state for antiquities, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is the author of many books on ancient Egypt, including (with Sahar Saleem) Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies (AUC Press, 2016).

Essays on:The Land of NubiaHistory of NubiaEarly Exploration and ArchaeologySaving Nubia's LegacyArchaeological SalvageArt and ArchitectureKings and KingshipReligionBurial CustomsTexts and WritingDaily LifeWomenAdornmentCeramicsAnimalsGazetteer of sites:Gebel QeiliNaqaMusawwarat al-SufraWad ban Naqa al-HobagiMuweisal-HassaHamadabMeroeDangeil NuriGebel Barkalal-KurruKawaTaboKermaTombos NauriSesebiSolebSedeingaSai IslandAmara West GammaiGebel Sheikh SuleimanSecond Cataract Forts C-GroupQustulBallanaAbu SimbelArminna West and Arminna EastToshka East and Toshka WestQasr Ibrim KaranogDerrAmadaWadi al-SebuaMaharraqaDakka Gerf HusseinDendua Beit al-WaliKalabshaTaffeh QertassiDebodPhilaeElephantine and Aswan

For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia's remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration.This book attempts to document some of what has recently been discovered about ancient Nubia, with its remarkable history, architecture, and culture, and thereby to give us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.