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Shedding light on the Sudanese Dark Ages: Geophysical research at Old Dongola, a city‐state of the Funj period (16th–19th centuries) [PDF]
Archaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 259-273, April/June 2022., 2022 Abstract The article presents the results of magnetic and ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) research carried out in Old Dongola in northern Sudan in 2018 and 2020, within the framework of a project designed to investigate the transition from Christianity to Islam taking place in the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria.
Artur Obłuski +2 more
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Early Makuria Research Project Remarks on pottery from the recent excavations at el-Zuma [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The article presents new material excavated during the last season, discusses production technology and surface treatment. Recently excavated material from el-Zuma throws new light on pottery production and its typology, necessitating thus a ...
Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska
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Early Makuria Research Project Excavations at el-Zuma, 2017. Preliminary report [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 During the tenth season of excavations at el-Zuma the mission resumed the previously postponed excavation of the last two tunnels beneath tumuli T.1 and T.4. Both tumuli were classified as Type I burials, based on their large size and unique construction.
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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Short history of the Church of Makuria (mid-6th–early 12th century) [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 The article outlines the history of the Makurian church from the conversion of the kingdom to Christianity until the death of the archbishop Georgios in AD 1113, focusing particularly on the relations of the Makurian Church with the Church of Alexandria,
Włodzimierz Godlewski
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Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 862-880, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within the relatively isolated environs of the Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive of mobility toward the monastery by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, a sample of 37 individuals from the monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for ...
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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The arab sources on the war of the Caliphate with the christian Nubia and the role of the peace treaty of 651/652 in the political confrontation between Egypt and Nubia [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020 At the end of the 6th century, Christianity became an offi cial religion of the three Nubian kingdoms, i. e. Nobadia, Makuria, and Alwa, and as early as the second third of the 7th century, the expansion of Islam to the African continent begins.
Alexey Danshin
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Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 227-246, April 2021., 2021 Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska +3 more
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Pottery from Dongola: a stratigraphic assemblage from unit B.I.41 [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The article discusses an assemblage of pottery recovered from unit B.I.41 in the palatial building B.I excavated on the citadel of Dongola in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Katarzyna Danys
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Animals from the tumuli in el-Detti in Sudan: from bone remains to studying ritual [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 Excavation of seven tumuli during the 2015 season in a cemetery of Early Makurian date located in the village of el-Detti yielded an extensive animal bone assemblage, altogether 590 bone fragments, accompanying the other finds. Poor preservation resulted
Urszula Iwaszczuk
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, 2021 Old Nubian is the modern designation for a literary language attested in texts from the Nubian kingdom of Makuria in the Middle Nile Valley between the late eighth and fifteenth century ce.
Vincent van Gerven Oei
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