Pharaonic Architecture with Nubian Touches Create a Gateway to the Historical Eras Till Arriving at the Pre-History In The Nubian Museum
Inspired by the ancient Pharaonic temples and in harmony with the unique Nubian architecture, the Nubia Temple was designed in the arms of the bright Nubian sun that illuminates your way towards history, to wander inside this museum meeting prehistoric artifacts to monuments from the Kingdom of Kush and Meroe, till arriving at the Coptic and Islamic art displays. The Nubian Museum, where you reach what was lost beneath Lake Nasser. That is how a rare charming treasure collecting in one place.
Nubian Museum is where you will be in the midst of 50,000 square meters to find that each inch will carry you through the ages to live a wonderful adventure, as Nubian Museum came to immortalize all the history and arts of Nubia (the land of gold) in its corners. Suddenly you will find yourself living in the period of and the prehistoric era, moving to the civilization of the Neolithic period, then the age of the pyramids, and the Middle Nubian era.
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Then the Nubian Kingdom of Kush will take you to its secrets and how it dominated the Pharaonic civilization, and how the Egyptian civilization was in Nubia, in the 25th Dynasty, the Kingdom of Meroe, and the Late Period, until you reach Christian Nubia and Islamic Nubia, and then live with the International Campaign of Saving the Monuments of Nubia the events they have faced and how they succeeded in it, to finally find yourself in the middle of the folklore section and enjoy the unique Nubian traditions and culture.
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At the time you decide to enter this gateway to the history of Nubia, majestic eighty historical statues, some of which are dedicated to the gods of ancient Nubia and magnificent historical rocks will take your attention in the garden of the Nubian Museum, to salute you in their remarkable landmark in Aswan and invite you to complete your tour, to hear a water sound when following it, you will be in front of some artificial lakes and waterfalls that serve as a demonstration of the river Nile and its flow into the lands of Nubia, to find your way into the embrace of the daily life in ancient Nubia.
How Was Nubia Museum A Way to Protect Treasure of the Eras?
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The history of Nubia faced a severe challenge as a result of the Aswan High Dam building, as majestic historical sites were completely underwater to find complete great pharaonic temples sank, and other monuments were covered completely by the Lake Nasser, so without the quick decisions and the great efforts of UNESCO and the Egyptian government, this treasure of history would be lost.
If we come back with history and look at the historical documents, we will find that the history of the land of Nubia has been submerged three times, although the building of the High Dam is considered to be the most difficult risk that faced the Nubia area, the lands of Nubia were drowned three times before the High Dam in history.
The first time was when the Aswan Dam was built in 1902, which resulted in increasing the level of the river Nile water, which consequently threatened the monuments. The second time was in 1912, while the third time was in 1932, while was the big challenge when Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser decided to build the High Dam, so the studies had come to record the whole monuments and listed them, and maps of the exact location to recollect each landmark at its exact form to be transferred.
That was what happened for the Abu Simble temple, the Philae Temples, the Temple of Jewish, the Temple of Calabsha, the Temple of Dandara, the Temple of Beit Al Waly, and the Temple of Amada. While still there were treasures from history without any housing, that is why the role of building the Nubian Museum came to housing these archaeological excavations that were carried out as part of the UNESCO international campaign to save the monuments of Nubia.
When the Decision of Building the Nubian Museum Had Come
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A unique architectural masterpiece mixed with the glorious Pharaonic architecture decorates the banks of the Nile in
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Aswan. It was designed by the Egyptian architect Mahmoud al-Hakim to be inaugurated in 1997 and won the Aga Khan Award for the most beautiful architectural building in the world in 2001.
Your steps towards the Nubian Museum will be in the dazzling, to go through the Fatimid Islamic domes known as “44 Walli”, then you will find yourself entering a dire time gap that will lose you what you see in the outside world. You are now surrounded by history in a world completely parallel to the outside world.
The total area of the Nubian museum is 50 thousand square meters, of which 7 thousand square meters are allocated to the building while the rest is devoted to gardens, to walk through real charm meeting a pharaonic obelisk engraved with hieroglyphic texts to read the ancient Egyptian message they had left for you in the accompany of statues dating back to the 19th Pharaonic Dynasty.
Follow your steps after the main door on the stairs to the main exhibition hall, there; you will stand in amazement finding eight meter-long statue of King Ramses II in the center welcomes you to the world of magical history, to find your soul dances from the majesty of the pharaohs, while the sound of Nubian music and festivals that come from the gardens inside the Nubian museum comes to achieve a wonderful mixture to complete your tour amid these rare antiques that have come from history to reveal more secrets to you and give you the opportunity to live eras other than yours.
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You will fly inside the Nubian museum to complete your tour of the charm of the Pharaohs, to find more grandeur among these pharaonic artifacts, including a sandstone statue of the god of wisdom, Thoth that will travel you back to 3200 years and then a small statue of the goddess Isis breastfeeding her son, the god Horus will attract you to walk among mummies, amulets, utensils, ornaments, pottery, and other rare relics.
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You will feel how Nubian Museum was a rescue cordon for greatness that almost disappeared from humanity; you will miss a lot if you do not spend some of your time amid this treasure.
How be Will your Journey In The Nubian Museum?
Leave the area of the wild plants to get your gateway to Paleolithic ax and the other artifacts to find a bone comb with two giraffes carved on the handle, a vessel made out of an ostrich egg, and other Nubian artifacts that will call 3500 BC events to be materialized towards your eyes in the charm of Nubian Museum.
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While artifacts reflect the trade relationship between the people in southern Egypt and the people in Nubia to find that Elephant Island was the center of the trading, depending on materials, wood, and ivory, all the details are in front of your eyes even you will find eye makeup and a vessel decorated with a rowing boat with multiple oars, ostriches to be in the heart of the events with this smallest detail.
While the section “Group C” will transfer you to another period to be amid the new civilization of Nubian after the
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the decline of the 6th Pharaonic Dynasty, the period of pyramid building, Female figurine typical will guide you to the painted pottery bowls and an impressive quartzite statue of a 25th-dynasty priest of Amun in Thebes with distinct Kushite (Upper Nubian) features.
How had the Egyptian control over Nubia declined gradually since the end of the 21 dynasties around the year 1050 BC? That will what the artifacts of the new civilization, was called Kosh, tell us about. To be in the heart of the year 900 BC, attending the new power that controlled a huge part of Nubia and remained there for more than 1000 years.
Just go through the pots that include one of came from the Kerma Culture and an ancient pot with a handle, also a Meroitic offering table to see on it Meroitic writing, a crouching baby lion fashioned in clay, to find after your way through the statues of Harawa, who was the Great Steward of Amenardis, the divine wife of Amun, a Statue of King Taharqa, younger brother of Shabatka, and a statue of Amenardis, and after knowing the story of each one, you will find your gate to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras.
Nubia Museum by Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D.
Ptolemaic and Roman eras ruled at the same time as the Meroitic civilization, to find at each monument of these periods a great story to walk in a magical floor seeing a pair of silver bracelets, the ends of each of them represent stylized lion heads, an Oil lamp in the shape of a pigeon seeing how was the lighting at these times, silver diadems, a gaming board from the 3rd century which was a sort of backgammon with 15 ivory and 15 ebony pieces, and an incense burner in the form of a stylized lion.
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While you live the events of this period in the Nubian Museum, another time will call you to be in the Christianity time.
Go along the wooden Coptic cross, Coptic prayer book containing Coptic inscriptions, Byzantine-style fresco from the church of Abdalla Nirqi, 10th century, and a Fragment of a linen shroud depicting a human face, till finding yourself in front of a child’s tunic from the Fatimid period, a tombstone from the Fatimid period, 968-1070 AD, in addition to a water vessel from the Mamluk era, and another water vessel from the Mamluk period. In this area, you will be in the 6th century when most of the Nubian people changed their religion to Islam.
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Info You Need To Know About the Nubian Museum Had Come
Nubian Museum operation hours are from 9 AM to 1 PM & from 5 PM to 9 PM.
The ticket cost is 100 LE, and for students, it is 50 LE.
Nubian Museum address is El Fenadek Street, Aswan (opposite Basma Hotel).
