Tuesday, 12th February 2008 (3171 views)

Gold weights, jewellery and trinkets are part of a new exhibition in the US examining the influence of the ancient Egyptian empire on the "lost kingdom" of Nubia.

According to the Emory Wheel, the Michael C Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia is hosting Lost Kingdoms of the Nile to highlight the cultural influence of ancient Egypt while helping people to find out more about the Nubian civilisation, which existed in north Africa between 6,000 BC and 350 AD.

Gold played an important role in both societies and the paper says that Nubia is derived from the Egyptian word for the yellow metal.

Artefacts on display include a gold weight - which were used before the introduction of currency to ensure trades were fair - and Nubian jewellery, which drew on Egyptian styles for their complex designs.

There are a number of other items that emphasise the link between the two cultures, including scarab beetles, mummy statuettes and models of pyramids.

Archaeologists began excavating some of the artefacts in the exhibition in 1907.

Nubia existed in the area that is the southern part of modern Egypt and northern Sudan.

 

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