Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile

Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile - edited by an outstanding team of Egyptologists led by Drs. Margaret Fisher, Peter Lacovara and Salima Ikram - is the most comprehensive work to date on this subject. At the suggestion of Egyptologist Dr. Bob Brier, the team reached out to Higgins and selected images from his archives - photographs from three seasons of work in the northern Sudan - to illustrate the 472-page book. The majority of the location photographs in this stunning book were made by Higgins.

About the Book:
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 harsh desert, with river access blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration.

The book, highlighting some recent discoveries in ancient Nubia, gives us a picture of this rich, but unfamiliar, African legacy.

Chester Higgins Jr. has work as a New York Times photographer since 1975 and exhibited in museums throughout the world. His solo shows have appeared at the International Center of Photography, The Museum of Photographic Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of African Art, Musee Dapper Paris, The Schomburg Center, The New-York Historical Society, and the Schatten Gallery at Emory University. He is the author of the photo collections Black Woman, Drums of Life, Some Time Ago: A Historical Portrait of Black America (1850-1950), Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, and his memoir Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer's Journey.

To learn more about the artist, visit www.chesterhiggins.com.

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