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Old Dongola was the capital of a great medieval Nubian kingdom. Its cathedral once dominated the city, standing more than six stories high. Archaeologists there have now revealed a section of the original cathedral floor and the base of a vast staircase!
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ALT Old Dongola cathedral (📸 Adrian Chlebowski/PCMA UW)
ALT Old Dongola cathedral (📸 Adrian Chlebowski/PCMA UW)
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🏺 اكتشاف أثري يعود إلى العصر الحجري الحديث في شرق السودان – ولاية القضارف
في 8 أكتوبر 2026، اكتشف فريق من قسم الآثار والفلكلور بجامعة القضارف، بالتعاون مع إدارة الآثار بالولاية، مقابر تلالية في منطقة المريبيعة بمحلية الفشقة.
أسفرت أعمال المسح والحفر عن العثور على ثلاث جرار فخارية مدفونة وبقايا عظمية بشرية، بينها أجزاء من هيكل عظمي لطفل يُرجح أنه دُفن في وضعية القرفصاء.
ورصد الباحثون مقابر في ثلاثة مواقع مختلفة، وتشير التقديرات الأولية إلى احتمال عودة المكتشفات إلى العصر الحجري الحديث، ما بين 5000 و3000 قبل الميلاد.
ويُعد الاكتشاف بداية مهمة لاستكشاف التاريخ الحضاري لشرق السودان، فيما لا يزال تحديد العمر والتفسير الأثري النهائي ينتظر مزيداً من الدراسات والحفريات.
📅 تاريخ العمل الميداني: 8 أكتوبر 2026
📢 تاريخ إعلان الاكتشاف: 11–13 أكتوبر 2026.
#السودان #آثار_السودان #القضارف #جامعة_القضارف
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A Sudanese-Polish archaeological expedition working at Old Dongola in Sudan, has uncovered further sections of the monumental building known as the Great Church of Jesus, the largest and wealthiest church in medieval Nubia, according to the Arabic sources. pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2026/11/06…
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Polish and Sudanese archaeologists have uncovered new secrets of a monumental medieval church in Sudan, believed to be larger than the White House.
Excavations at Old Dongola revealed a grand staircase, the church’s original floor and traces of another ancient church, offering fresh insights into medieval African Christianity.
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🏺 اكتشاف أثري يكشف أسرار صناعة مقتنيات الملوك الكوشيين في السودان!
في 19 أكتوبر 2026، كشفت دراسة أثرية نُشرت بمجلة Antiquity عن ورشة عمرها نحو 2700 عام، بجوار معبد صنام بمنطقة نبتة شمال السودان.
عثر الباحثون على 3 حفر للحرق، ومئات الخرزات الملونة، وتمثال جنائزي أخضر صغير، يُعتقد أن منتجات الورشة ارتبطت بمقابر ملوك كوش في منطقة نوري.
ويكشف الاكتشاف عن براعة الحرفيين النوبيين ودور المعابد في صناعة المقتنيات الملكية، كما يقدم دليلاً جديداً على تميز الحضارة الكوشية تقنياً وحضارياً.
الصور المرفقة فيها حُفر الحرق المكتشفة، الخرز الملون الذي تم العثور عليه في الموقع وبقايا التصنيع، التمثال الجنائزي الأخضر والقالب الطيني.
📌 المصدر: مجلة Antiquity – جامعة كامبريدج، 19 أكتوبر 2026.
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Ancient Kush is Sobek! Egypt, Sudan, the Nile River, and gold—lots of gold and precious stones, enough to build empires!
A Nile Crocodile. Fits perfectly, clever symbol too. One of my faves. Cheers.
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The Nile is not a border.
This is the simplest version of the argument and also the one that should require the least explanation.
The Nile flows from the interior of Africa northward to the Mediterranean.
The civilizations along its length were in constant contact, trading, fighting, exchanging people and ideas and religious concepts and agricultural techniques across what was not a separation but a connection.
The civilization of ancient Egypt did not emerge in isolation.
It emerged in relationship with the Nubian civilizations to its south, some of whose cultures predated the unification of Egypt, which contributed to and drew from Egyptian culture across millennia.
The kings of Kush would eventually rule Egypt as its 25th Dynasty.
And across the centuries that followed, Kushite civilization would leave behind something that still surprises people today.
More pyramids.
In what is now Sudan.
Built by the civilization that the Western imagination has most completely erased.
There are more ancient pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
Most people reading that sentence right now are encountering it for the first time.
That is not because the information is obscure.
It is because the information does not fit a story that someone needed to be true.
And the information that does not fit the story does not make it into the classroom.
ALT The Royal Pyramids of Meroë, Sudan. An aerial view of the ancient royal burial grounds of the Kingdom of Kush, one of Africa's great civilizations. These pyramids were built largely between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE to honor Kushite kings and queens. Centuries earlier, Kushite rulers had governed Egypt itself as its 25th Dynasty. Today, Sudan contains more surviving ancient pyramids than Egypt. These monuments are evidence of a civilization that developed its own traditions while exchanging culture, knowledge and power with its northern neighbour across centuries. The Nile did not divide these civilizations. It connected them. The pyramids are still standing. What remains missing from too many classrooms is the history of the people who built them.
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Pan Africans when they see a Nubian Egyptian: they r the real Egyptians
Pan Africans when they see a Nubian sudani: arab invaders 😡
Pan Africans when they c black gulf Arabs: they r beautiful, the original Arabs r black
Pan Africans when they c a sudani Arab: ur not Arab 😡
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Closer genetically to either Nubians or African Americans
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It’s like listening to Sudanese Arabic but with a Habesha accent.
