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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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Animals in Funerary Rituals at the El-Zuma Cemetery
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 Animal remains have been coming to light in the tombs at El-Zuma since regular excavations were first conducted at this site in 2005. The bone remains from the first two seasons (2005 and 2007) were analysed and published by Marta Osypińska (2005; 2010 ...
Urszula Iwaszczuk
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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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Archaeological Park and Cultural Centre at the El-Zuma Cemetery: A Future Concept
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 At the beginning of the first season of excavation, in December 2004, some leading figures of the local community expressed their gratitude for our work and their happiness that, at last, the cemetery area will be free of obstacles.
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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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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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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Dongola Reach: A Historical, Geographical and Economic Overview
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 Ancient Nubia [Fig. 1.1], in contrast to ancient Egypt, does not boast a wealth of documentary evidence to tell us about its history, nor has its archaeological record been as extensively investigated. The earliest information concerning Ancient Nubia is
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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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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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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El-Zuma Burials: Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 The aim of the osteological analysis of human remains recovered from the tumuli at El-Zuma was to reconstruct the demographic and physical health profile of the buried individuals by collecting the best dataset possible on bone morphology. The relatively
R. Mahler
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