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Summer 2017, Daily News
Finds reveal how ancient Egyptian and Nubian cultures blended

Tue, Mar 01, 2016

Study shows how excavations in Sudan reveal the transformation of Egyptian and Nubian culture.
Finds reveal how ancient Egyptian and Nubian cultures blended

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA—In a middle-class tomb just east of the Nile River in what was Upper Nubia, a woman offers a glimpse of how two met civilizations met, mingled and a new pharaonic dynasty arose. Her tomb was Egyptian, but she was buried in the Nubian style—placed in a flexed position on her side and resting on a bed. Around her neck she wore amulets of the Egyptian god Bes, the protector of households.

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