Early Makuria Research Project: Interim report on the excavation at el-Detti in 2014 and 2015 with Appendix: Metal objects from the el-Detti cemetery [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 Burial structures and the assemblages found inside them at the site of el-Detti, about 13 km downstream from Karima and 7 km upstream from el-Zuma, were explored in 2014 and 2015 by a joint team from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology ...
Mahmoud El-Tayeb +3 more
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Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450–550). Early Makuria Research Project [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 After the fall of the Meroe kingdom, three entities – Nobadia, Early Makuria, and Alwa (Alodia) – emerged in northeast Africa between the 4th and the 6th centuries AD.
Joanna Then-Obłuska
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Early Makuria Research Project. The vessel assemblage from Tanqasi [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 The first archaeological season of the Early Makuria Research Project at Tanqasi, which encompassed the exploration of five tombs in different parts of the extensive tumulus field (16, 23, 46, 52, and 179), yielded an assemblage of pottery vessels, as ...
Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska
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Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018 [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 Tanqasi village lies on the left side of the river Nile, about 17 km downstream from Merowe city. A large tumuli field is located some kilometers southeast of the village toward the edge of the Bayuda Desert.
Maciej Wyżgoł, Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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Trade and faith in Nubian Early Makuria (AD 450–550): macroscopic examination of personal adornments from el-Zuma in Nubia [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 In the long history of the land between the Third and Fourth Cataracts on the Nile, the period corresponding to the times of Early Makuria is particularly well represented.
Joanna Then-Obłuska
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Early Makuria Research Project. Metal artifacts from the Tanqasi cemetery [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 The article documents and discusses metal artifacts discovered in tombs explored by a joint Polish–Sudanese project from the PCMA UW and the NCAM in the tumuli field at Tanqasi in Sudan (Fourth Nile Cataract region).
Łukasz Zieliński
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Early Makuria Research Project. Beads and pendants from the tumulus cemetery in Nubian Tanqasi, Sudan [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 An assemblage of 1687 beads and pendants was recovered from the excavation of five tumuli (16, 23, 46, 52, 179) in the cemetery of Tanqasi in Sudan. The assemblage is dominated by faience beads (n=920). The remaining beads and pendants are made of glass (
Joanna Then-Obłuska
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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement aroundthe church at Banganarti in Sudan [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 The assemblage of faunal remains from Banganarti subjected to archaeozoological examinationcounted 4178 bones and fragments of bones. They represented contexts recorded withinthe fortified settlement around the church in Banganarti, attributed to two ...
Marta Osypińska
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