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Archaeological Park and Cultural Centre at the El-Zuma Cemetery: A Future Concept

open access: yesEarly 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Early Makuria Research Project. The vessel assemblage from Tanqasi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
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 ...
Czyżewska-Zalewska, Ewa
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LA‐ICP‐MS analysis of glass beads from Tié (12th–14th centuries), Kanem, Chad: Evidence of trans‐Sudanic exchanges

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 100-118, February 2024.
Abstract Chemical analysis of glass from African archaeological sites has become a standard research tool over the past decades. Despite the multiplication of studies, the continent still exhibits vast unexplored regions. One of these is the surroundings of Lake Chad.
Sonja Magnavita   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

El-Zuma Burials: Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains

open access: yesEarly 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450–550). Early Makuria Research Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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.
Then-Obłuska, Joanna
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Plan of the El-Zuma tumuli field (Copyright Makuria Research Project, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw).

open access: yes, 2019
Plan of the El-Zuma tumuli field (Copyright Makuria Research Project, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw).
Justyna Niderla-Bielińska (6368789)   +2 more
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Animals in Funerary Rituals at the El-Zuma Cemetery

open access: yesEarly 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Makuria in the middle of the 12th century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In the middle of the 12th century, the King of Dotawo (Makuria) and Arwa, referred to as Mouse Georgios in many Old Nubian documents and in studies on the subject, was the eparch of Palaga, a province of the Kingdom of Arwa, and in all likelihood the ...
Godlewski, Włodzimierz
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Unearthing 6th-century CE occupation on the fringes of the Nile Valley. Closing the PalaeoAffad Project in the Affad Basin (Sudan)

open access: yes, 2022
Presentation of the results of the last season of research in the Affad Basin (Northern Province, Sudan). Recent discoveries focused on the most distant archaeological sites known in the microregion, remote some 7 km from the current river.
Beata Piotrowska   +8 more
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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]

open access: yes, 2016
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.
Then-Obłuska, Joanna
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