Can We Decolonize the Ancient Past? Bridging Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory in Sudanese and Nubian Archaeology

Archaeology in Sudan and Nubia has been greatly impacted by modern colonialism northeast Africa. In theory practice, the discipline's history region includes interpretations of past realities that worked as intellectual bases for colonization. From a postcolonial standpoint, offer us an opportunity to investigate complexity beyond oversimplifying colonial narratives entangled with practice archaeology region. However, more complex, ancient have played only small part ‘decolonizing’ initiatives aiming reframe archaeological heritage today. this paper, I discuss different trajectories decolonial archaeology, focusing on (roughly south Egypt from Aswan north up Khartoum). will argue bridging through what refer ‘narratives reparation’ can ways address both conceptual problems underlying avenues all-encompassing decolonization field.