{"id":389210,"date":"2010-03-04T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5659084575381984467"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:31:13","slug":"former-swiss-wine-grower-uncovers-sudans-ancient-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389210","title":{"rendered":"Former Swiss wine grower uncovers Sudan&#8217;s ancient roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5ipTJItcAtRr5y4MzgMjOqDmXGcHw\">Google \/ AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charles Bonnet, the 76-year-old doyen of Sudan archaeologists who helped rewrite an ancient chapter of Africa&#8217;s largest country, has come a long way from the Swiss vineyards he harvested as a youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a young person, I was a wine grower. I jumped off my tractor and quickly went to university,&#8221; he recalled, eyes lighting up, as he sat with an AFP correspondent on the terrace of the Acropole hotel in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>He still gives some credit to his roots as a vine grower. &#8220;One learns how to see the ground, the vegetation, the colours of the ground,&#8221; he said, things he could not pick up at university.<\/p>\n<p>Bonnet helped show that Sudan was not merely a satellite to Egypt&#8217;s wealth of ancient relics. He unearthed statues of Sudan&#8217;s &#8220;black pharaohs&#8221;, the overlords of the Kingdom of Kush, and showing Sudan was a trove itself.<\/p>\n<p>After university, he drifted to South America, but ended up setting his sights on Egypt. &#8220;I was interested in Egypt, but more in Africa. I realised it was wrong to seek Sudan in Egypt. It was necessary to seek Sudan in Sudan,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5659084575381984467?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google \/ AFP Charles Bonnet, the 76-year-old doyen of Sudan archaeologists who helped rewrite an ancient chapter of Africa&#8217;s largest country, has come a long way from the Swiss vineyards he harvested as a youth. &#8220;As a young person, I was a wine grower. I jumped off my tractor and quickly went to university,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}