Up Egypt » A Nubian Village Slideshow

These photos are of a visit to a Nubian village near Aswan. The Nubians are an ethnic group originally from northern Sudan, and Southern Egypt now inhabiting East Africa and some parts of Northeast Africa. Ancient Nubians were famous for their vast wealth, their trade between central Africa and the lower Nile valley civilizations, including Egypt, their skill and precision with the bow, their 23-letter alphabet, the use of deadly poison on the heads of their arrows, their great military, their advanced civilization, and their century-long rule over the united upper and lower Egyptian kingdoms.

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