Summary: Once rivals and even rulers of Ancient Egypt, Nubian kingdoms dominated the eastern Sahara for millennia. In this program art historian Gus Casely-Hayford tours the ruins of Kerma and Meroe, two of Nubia's great capitals, to examine some of the cultural treasures these complex civilizations left behind: the remains of a vast worship center built 4,000 years ago, a temple to the god Amun,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.)
Summary: "Nubia has always been a little bit...different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor's cat. But despite her having similar abilities, the world has no problem telling her that she's no Wonder Woman. And even if she were, they wouldn't want her. Every time she comes to the rescue, she's reminded of how people see her: as a threat. Her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MCKDin, Hamza El.
Contents: The Water wheel -- I remember -- Song with tar.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch Records 1971
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DINSummary: Hidden away in the Butana region of northern Sudan lie the ruins of ancient Nubia, an African civilization that rivaled Egypt for centuries. This film familiarizes students with ongoing excavations that study and preserve the deteriorating remains of the Nubian kingdom of Kush. Interviews with Sudanese, American, and European archaeologists and historians are interwoven with stunning footage...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Din, Hamza El.
Contents: Greetings -- Sunset -- Anesigu -- Griffin 2 -- Nagrishad -- Samai Husaini -- A wish.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN DINRaizes Do Pelo
Contents: Nubia -- Banda dos negros -- Republica livre -- Reggae sem -- Raizes Do Pelo -- Forca do ile -- Nacao jamaicana -- Hino do senhor do Bonfim -- Socialista Etiopa -- Axe, paz e luz -- Crucial.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Interra 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN RAIRascals (Musical group)
Contents: See -- I'd like to take you home -- Remember me -- I'm blue -- Stop and think -- Temptation's 'bout to get me -- Nubia -- Carry me back -- Away away -- Real thing -- Death's reply.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1969
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RASContents: Madame Foyer -- Falafel eastern -- Bedouin sparklers -- Tangental psychedelico -- Solitaire oriental -- Beirut cocktail/Khartoum entrée -- Voice of peace? -- Aswan slip -- Ramadan with crowbar -- Night in ancient Egypt -- Exploding briefcases of Cairo -- Trenchcoat heatwave, buffet style -- ElectriCAIRO -- How are you, Mr. Criminal -- Psychic Iman INC. -- Freedom fighters -- Lo-fi Nubia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sublime Frequencies 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST RADJohn, Elton.
Contents: Every story is a love story -- Fortune favors the brave -- The past is another land -- Another pyramid -- How I know you -- My strongest suit -- Enchantment passing through -- My strongest suit (reprise) -- Dance of the robe -- Not me -- Elaborate lives -- The gods love Nubia -- A step too far -- Easy as life -- Like father, like son -- Radames' letter -- How I know you (reprise) -- Written in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC AIDSummary: Describes the people, culture, antiquities, and influences of ancient civilizations, starting with early humans and moving chronologically through Sumer, Egypt, Nubia, India, China, Israel, Greece, Rome, and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 930 AncSun Ra.
Contents: Tiny pyramids (3:38) -- Between two worlds (1:56) -- Music from the world tomorrow (2:20) -- Angels and demons at play (2:51) -- Urnack (3:46) -- Medicine for a nightmare (2:16) -- A call for all demons (4:12) -- Demon's lullaby (2:35) -- Plutonian nights (4:20) -- The golden lady (7:40) -- Star time (4:15) -- Nubia (8:13) -- Africa (5:04) -- Watusa (2:35) -- Aiethopia (7:11).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Evidence 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SUNEvans, Lois
Summary: "When Queen Hippolyta sends her daughters, Wonder Woman and Nubia, to Atlantis to represent the Amazons, the Super Heroes team up with Mera to save the underwater kingdom from a dangerous foe!"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN EVASummary: "A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. This is the first book for non-specialists to explore the great precolonial kingdoms of Africa that have been marginalized throughout history. Great Kingdoms of Africa aims to decenter European colonialism and slavery as the major themes of African history and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 GRESummary: A major gateway to sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan has seen the rise and fall of many powerful kingdoms and refined cultures-and the key to understanding these ancient civilizations lies in the multitude of archaeological treasures that dot the landscape and that are still buried beneath the sands. This program follows the trail of the young French naturalist and pioneer Frederic Cailliaud, whose...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Disc 1. La cumbia está llamando (El conjunto de Jaime Simanca) (2:56) -- Cumbia del Puerto (Conjunto Los Rumberos) (2:43) -- Judith (Lucho Pérez) (2:36) -- Sembrando café (Alberto Pacheco y su Conjunto) (2:49) -- Nubia en la playa (Rafael Yepes Crespo con sus Negros de la Región) (2:48) -- Capital cebuista (Santander Flores) (2:57) -- El pájaro prieto (Rufo Garrido) (2:47) -- La fullera...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundway Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN ORISummary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005