- Nubia Museum


Nubia is the area south of Aswan and extended as far north as Khartoum.
It is divided into two parts
(1) Lower Nubia (Egypt and tracking)
And extends from Aswan to Wadi Halfa.
(2) and Upper Nubia (Sudan and tracking)
Extending from Wadi Halfa to Fifth Cataract almost was born the idea of the Nubia Museum during the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, which called by Egypt and adopted by UNESCO with the participation of many countries and therefore to include this museum antiquities found in the region of Nubia by the missions that were operating in the region.
Studies have been prepared in the early eighties to come to the museum of architecture reflect the architectural style Nubian rock formations and used as a component expressing the Nubian style architecture, rock formations and used as a component of the site to be configured with an open-air museum contains artifacts, Nubian house, waterways and Lake of the link between the Nile River The reef, Heritage and the Nubian.
The museum consists of three floors, one underground and contains the main exhibition hall, laboratories and stores a restoration of the effects and control centers and visitor services, and the second, the ground floor contains galleries and chambers of the provisional administration and security. The first floor library and laboratories fitted with photography and the Department of educational activities and the cafeteria. The museum collections of ancient Nubia since prehistoric times and through the historical eras. Central State of the modern state, a plant kingdom, the Kingdom of Meroe, the Christian era and the Nubian Islamic era. This is in addition to the popular Nubian Heritage. Among the most important pieces on display Graffiti that reflect the different objects or scenes recorded on the blocks of rock back to prehistoric times and a rich collection of pottery, fishing gear, and a statue of King Ramses II and the Palais des Aprem limited supplies and trim the horses and the painting of the reign of King Obsmatik model for burial Nubian Islamic cemetery and Sakia A sweep and Christian murals and manuscripts written lines are different.



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