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"This is the only place he could consult those materials, and we have the objects [[George Reisner] found], thanks to a division with the Egyptian Museum" in Cairo, she said. "We have the finest collection of Nubian artifacts outside of Sudan ... There are only a few places in the world you can see Nubian art, period."
[Rita Freed] said the museum "does a lot to keep the old Nubian customs, Nubian language and Nubian identity alive ... so that Nubia remains a living tradition, not something that lives in the memories of grandparents.""Sometimes people ask why we undertook such a project - no other American black museums have," [Edmund Barry Gaither] said. "And we reply that if we want to say to young black people that they descend from kings and queens, their logical reply might be, 'Show me the evidence.' Museums are in the business of providing historical evidence of civilizations."See the full content of this document
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Nubia Museum Head Links Boston, Egypt
ASWAN, Egypt - The Nubia Museum sits on a hill just up from the floating line of cruise ships moored on the Nile River.
Inside the museum's yellow sandstone walls works an enthusiastic man with a Boston connection, some 6,000 miles away from this southern Egyptian city. His name is Ossa...See the full content of this document
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