Early Makuria Research Project. The vessel assemblage from Tanqasi [PDF]
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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Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450–550). Early Makuria Research Project [PDF]
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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Epitaph of Merki Found in Hambukol [PDF]
The article offers editio princeps of a Greek epitaph discovered during the archaeological work of the Canadian Mission in Hambukol, a locality situated on the right-hand bank of the Nile, several kilometres to the north of Dongola, the capital of the ...
Adam Łajtar
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Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018 [PDF]
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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Elements of Christian popular piety in Nubia (VI-XVI century) – an outline of aspects [PDF]
The study of Christian popular piety in Nubia is very difficult, because after the old Christian communities in Nubia only ruins of churches, towns and villages buried in the desert sand, which are successfully examined by archaeologists from various ...
Katarzyna Anna Mich
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Early Makuria Research Project. Metal artifacts from the Tanqasi cemetery [PDF]
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]
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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The High-Resolution Archaeology of Shared Courtyards at Old Dongola (14th-16th Century a.d., Sudan): an Intensive Approach to Domestic Open Spaces. [PDF]
final_author-7599262020/37/N/HS3/01400Urban Metamorphosis of the community of a Medieval African capital city. European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmeHistories Imprinted on Floors.
Wyżgoł M +2 more
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Out of all the regions and cultures of the Christian East, Nubia remains the one least studied, with the smallest number of researchers taking upon themselves the task of studying its political history, its Church and its archaeology.
Yu. M. Kobishchanov
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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement aroundthe church at Banganarti in Sudan [PDF]
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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