Religion
Anubis
Doorjamb (showing Anubis). Sandstone. From Meroe. Excavations of the University of Pisa. Khartoum, National Museum. Source: Wildung, Dietrich. Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile.
God of mummification.
Nubians believed that Anubis attended the funerary ceremonies of the diseased. Anubis was believed to give life to the spirit of dead. This god also had another important task, which was to weight the heart of the dead against Maat (the concept of righteousness and justice). If the heart was heavier than Maat, Anibus prevented the dead person from entering the afterlife. If the heart was lighter than Maat, Anibus would allow the person to enter.

Paintings of this god are present on the walls of, almost, every funerary chamber in Nubia. It is most likely that the cult of Anubis had originated in Nubia. Egyptian literature commonly associate his cult with Nubia. A poetic pyramid text from Egypt reads as follows:

"The jackal awakes, the moon arises,
The sleepers awake, the men of Nubia awake,
For the great bittern which came from the Nile,
For Anubis, who came from the tamarisk grove;
Pure is the mouth of the king…"

Religion
Eye of Re
Shield ring (showing the Eye of Re). In Munich. Source: Wildung, Dietrich. Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile.
Protector of the pharaohs
This Goddess was depicted as a uraeus, and was sometimes accompanied with a disk-shape. The ancient Nubians believed that the Eye of Re watched and protected the pharaoh from enemies by spitting flames on them. Thus, to the rulers of Nubia, the Eye of Re resembled the concept of being heavenly -protected. Part of an inscription found in a large cliff temple at Napata reads: ", , Eye of Re, Mistress of Heaven, queen of gods, residing in Napata;"1

This Goddess also resembled the pharaohs realm of political control. For example, Nubian Pharaohs adorned their crowns with double uraeus motifs, so that one uraeus recognized their rule over Nubia and the other recognized their rule over Egypt (Ancient Nubians believed that the land of Egypt to be part of Nubia; hence, rejecting the notion of an independent Egypt).

you are doing an exceptionally well job.  i like how you show the different shades/facial features of sudanese.  somehow, they have this arabic/ethiopian look

keep it up!

Amulet (showing Horus). Faience. From Kurru. Harvard University-MFA Boston Exhibition. Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Source: Wildung, Dietrich. Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile.
Horus
Father of the Pharaohs
This God Represented the concept of pharaohnicship. He was believed to be the father of all the pharaohs. A new pharaoh would often identify him/her self with Horus. His images appear on, almost, every temple in Nubia.

A translation of an offering table inscription from Semna, in Sudan, reads as follows:

"Life (to) the Horus divine of forms, he of the Two Ladies Divine of births, the Golden Horus who has come into being, Dual King Khakaura, "
(Translation from GEM)1

thank you epi, however, to be perfectly honest sudan have all the faces of the african continent besides the khosians in south africa, and the population reflexs this diversity. anyone from other african countries can go to sudan without people really noticing.

typo: reflects this diversity

Religion
Sebiumeker
Guardian God
Although Sebiumeker was a major god in Nubia, historians do not have a lot of information about how the ancient Nubians perceived him. Since representations of this god are often located near doorways, he is thought to resemble a guardian God.

Enormous statues of this God flanked the doorways of the Amon Temple at Tabo and the Eastern Temple at Musawwarat es Sofra. Sebiumeker, along with another unknown, deity are identified at Tabo as "guardians of the temple"

Bes
Close up of necklace (showing Bes). Silver. From Meroe. Harvard University-MFA Boston Exhibition. Khartoum, National Museum. Source: Wildung, Dietrich. Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile.
House god
Bes was a local God in ancient Nubia. This god was thought to protect from evil spirits and bring good luck. Representations of Bes were uncovered in numerous numbers from ordinary and rich graves alike, throughout Nubia.

The cult of Bes was associated with pregnancy and the health conditions of newborns. For that reason, Bes was particularly popular among women. His representations can be found in toilet items, such as mirrors, and jewelry.

Also, Bes was strongly associated with music, dancing, humor, and sexuality. He is often depicted dancing and/or playing with musical instruments.

necklace spacer of king Armantelqo

Golden Necklace Spacer

568-555 BC

Material: Gold.



Collection: Brooklyn (New York), The Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund 49.29



Description: On the front: "Son of Ra, Lord of the Crowns, Aramatelqo, may he live forever; Beloved of Hathor, Lady of Dendera, Mistress of the Gods, may she give life." On the back: "King of Upper and of Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands, Wadj-ka-ra, may he live for ever; Beloved of Ra-Harakhte, the Great God, Master of Heaven, may he give life." this was excavated at the city of meroe northern sudan.

Stela of King Amanikabale, he ruled during the meroitic period in northern sudan.

King Amanikhabale
From the book Sudan: Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile, Dietrich Wildung, 1997, p. 273
Steatite; From Meroe, Amun Temple; Oxford Excavations

(Garstang), 1911; Meroitic (50-40 BC)

Khartoum, National Museum



Amun, and on the right the goddess Mut in human form. Amun wears a feathered kilt and corselet, and on his head appears the double-plumed crown. Mut is shown with a winged garment and the Double Crown above a vulture diadem. While a star pattern adorns Amun's throne, a crouching winged sphinx, reminiscent of the Greek nemesis motif, appears on Mut's throne. Each deity is faced by the figure of a king presenting a triple-tiered broad collar. The fully preserved king at right bears on his ankle-length cloak a bird with outstretched wings in frontal view. Between Amun and Mut stands a tightly bound bundle of plants, whose uppermost end seems to be attached to Mut's crown. The beginning of the first two preserved lines of text, written in cursive script, reads: "King [Amanikha]-bale. . . [for his] wife Kaditede. . . ." The missing portion of the stela is probably located on a fragment in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg (K.-H. Priese). The richness of detail and powerful modeling place this stela among the very finest examples of Meroitic relief sculpture.

ancient meroitic writing. scholars are able to make out sounds and some meaning to somes words such as names, and gods, or prayers and libation, but outside of that much remains undeciphered, however there is a race among scholars across the world of the decipherment of the meroitic texts. there are many stone fragments and papyrus that remains decipherment. these texts could tell us the history of the african continent. the unraveling of the meroitic text is important to all africans, it is possible it can tell us our true origins and why did the vast majority of africans migranted out of the nile valley?

ancient meroitic alphabet.

here is a article of the expedition of american DR. George A Reisner director of the harvard university- museum at the pyramid complex of nuri in northern sudan. his finding was good, but his racial interpetation is definitely unbecoming. however, besides his obvious racism he uncovered great deal in reference to the history of sudanese nile valley.

http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/bmfa_pdfs/bmfa16_1918_67to82.pdf

this is the ruins of Gedi kenya builted during the 14th century AD, and later abandoned in the early 16th century.

gedi ruins in kenya builted by swalihis

Statue of Amenhotep I

Sai Island
in northern sudan


New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty (1525-1504 BC)



Sudan National Museum, Khartoum # 63/4/5



Description:



To either side of the king's legs, on the front of the throne and continuing on to the pedestal, are two neatly incised columns of inscription, enclosed in a narrow rectangular frame, the hieroglyphs facing inwards. The inscriptions, which read from top to bottom, give in each case the king's titulary, prenomen and nomen followed by an epithet and dedication to a god, one Egyptian, the other Nubian: 'The good god, lord of the two lands, lord of ritual, Djeserkara, son of Ra of his body, beloved of him. Amenhotep, given life, beloved of Amen-Ra, lord [of the thrones of the two lands]'; 'The good god, lord of the two lands, lord of ritual, Djeserkara, son of Ra of his body, beloved of him. Amenhotep, given life, beloved of Dedun, lord of

Ta-sety (Nubia)'.

again ruins of gedi kenya

this is a very interest article from one of the newspapers in europe.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2004/09/09/chung_barkstand1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/sep/09/museums.sudan&usg=__FWWN1GKM7jWpnjNnq9gtcQXdYag=&h=128&w=128&sz=11&hl=en&start=195&um=1&tbnid=45uDbyBYLVRs-M:&tbnh=91&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3Darcheology%2Bin%2Bsudan%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_enUS338%26sa%3DN%26start%3D180%26um%3D1

bark stand excavated at the na'ga temple in northern sudan

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Bark stand



Sandstone
Naga, Temple of Amun, sanctuary, excavation 104/1
Kushite (Meroitic), first century AD, reign of King Natakamani and Queen Amanitore

Left picture: The front side shows the falcon-headed Horus (left) and the ibis-headed Thoth (right) binding two plants, the papyrus and the lotus, around the central hieroglyphic emblem 'sema' (union). The papyrus represents Lower Egypt and the lotus represents Upper Egypt. Above this sign two cartouches are placed, crowned by a sun disc and double ostrich feather. The left (northern) cartouche contains the name of King Natakamani, while the right (southern) one the name of Queen Amanitore. Both are written in Meroitic hieroglyphs.

Right picture: Below, two Nile gods are binding two plants, the papyrus and the lotus, around the central hieroglyphic emblem 'sema", with the queen's second Egyptian name Merikara on the south, and the kings's second Egyptian name Kheperkara on the north.

The unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, symbolized by the sema motif, is the emblematic sign of political and cosmic order under the control of Kushite kingship.


Naga, Temple of Amun, Hypostyle, excavation no. 101/19

more faces of sudan ethnic diversity

more ethnic diversity.

here is more

four different faces like i showed above.

continue faces of sudan

faces of sudan and the most likely faces you will encounter in the cities.

faces of sudan

common faces in sudan

faces of sudan again

faces of sudan

faces of the diversity of sudan

faces of the sudan

what about the faces of egypt? like sudan egypt is also diverse, unlike other african countries both countries have shared ethnic groups that live on both side of the border. think about the hausa in northern nigeria and the hausa that live in niger, they are same people with a shared history and the same apply for egypt and this time northern sudan. however, many southern sudanese are viewed as foreigners and unforunately are treated as such. which is stupid. needless to say, here are some of the faces of today egypt.