Tag Archives: the Nile
Back to blogging
“This is it”, I exclaimed, after reading a post in one of the blogs on Sudan that I follow. A blog by a European girl in Sudan writing this Monday a very nice note about the Greek Club. I quote … Continue reading
Memories in space – an amazing flight over Batn el-Hajar
This month it is already five years since I had the opportunity to fly over the northernmost parts of the Nile Valley in Sudan with the Norwegian Bjarne Giske and his Ukranian pilots in a single propel biplane aircraft. We were flying … Continue reading
Meetings in Khartoum
Khartoum is built on a unique locality in terms of global geography. It is the meeting point of two long rivers with different origins: the Blue Nile coming from the Ethiopian highlands and the White Nile bringing the waters of the … Continue reading
Past days, past dams
Friday was a blessed day indeed: on the one hand the “opening” of the holy month of Ramadan and on the other the day that the Greek Orthodox Christianity venerates Prophet Elijah. The cult places of prophitis Ilias in Greece … Continue reading
Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa
The title of this blog entry is inspired by a book we recently read: “Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa” by Haggai Erlich. This book expanded the horizons of one of the case studies we dealt with in … Continue reading
Past, present, and future discoveries
In the previous entry, we were referring to life on Sai in the dig house of the French Mission from the University of Lille. A particular importance of this house is that it hosts most of the archaeological material found … Continue reading
Dig Houses of Nubia
Recently, we came across a noteworthy online contribution to archaeology along the Nile: A couple of two amateurs of Egyptology from Holland, Marcel and Monica Maessen, started a webpage that aims at presenting subjects which: 1. are both appealing to … Continue reading
The world of the saqia
The new month redirects our attention to a subject that has occupied our Internet Space quite often in this year: the waterwheel. Let’s remember the entries that were dedicated to the Nubian saqias and related topics. 1. On the 1st … Continue reading
From Nubia to Sudan: an Internet guiding
It would be hard to compare the last two weeks in Athens with any other visit to the Greek capital, since the Greek-Norwegian archaeological and nubiological reality started being presented through the Medieval Sai Project. The reason is not difficult … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 