Nubian Dreams: Images of Ancient Sudan exhibition

"In ancient times, Egypt ruled the world. Then, Nubia, ruled Egypt. Who were the ancient people—living, farming, worshiping and journeying—along the Nile River as it carried life to the desert? The Blue Nile, beginning in the highlands of Ethiopia (land of Lucy: the most ancient being of us all), joins the White Nile at modern-day Khartoum in Sudan and flows on through Egypt to the sea. Its seasonal flooding once brought belief, hope and terror to the people along its banks. Thousands-of-years-old temples and pyramids in Kemet (modern-day Egypt), Nubian pyramids and tombs in Sudan, and Axumite tombs and obelisks in Ethiopia all interconnect. But how? And in what order?
I use my camera to document similarities and differences that make a statement about these ancient Nile people—the Axumites, Nubians and Kemetians—and their phenomenal approach to society and the dramatic, collective conversation they conducted with their Creator. I try to give voice to the divine dialogue they left behind in stone.
To me, the ancient art and architecture portrays a family of cousins with shared beliefs and enmities living, loving and warring along the long, life-sustaining corridor of the Nile in northern Africa." — Chester Higgins, 2008
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