, 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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A brief history of Pachoras from the 5th to the 7th centuries [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020 The development of Pachoras, an important town in mid-5th century AD Nobadia, was broken violently by a flood at the beginning of the second half of the 6th century.
Włodzimierz Godlewski
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Medieval Presence at the Periphery of the Nubian State of Makuria: Examples from the Wadi Abu Dom and the Jebel al-Ain [PDF]
Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies, 2019 This paper presents some medieval material from remote areas within the Bayuda and the Western Deserts in Sudan, and draws several conclusions about the presence of Christianity and the Makurian administration within them. First, the general topographical setting of the different areas are described in order to define the geographical frame of the ...
Eger, Jana +2 more
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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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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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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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The winter seasons of 2013 and 2014 in the Ghazali monastery [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The article reports on archaeological and conservation work carried out by the expedition of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Sudanese National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums in two ...
Artur Obłuski +5 more
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Three Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Psalms from Dongola (DP 2–4) [PDF]
, 2020 The three bilingual Greek–Old Nubian psalms published in this paper have been preserved to us in form of ink inscriptions on the walls of the annexes abutting the monastery on Kom H in Dongola from the west, the capital of the Nubian Christian Kingdom of
Vincent van Gerven Oei, Adam Łajtar
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Ceramics from the North Church in Old Dongola revisited [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the MediterraneanThe paper seeks to reexamine the ceramics unearthed from the North Church in Old Dongola. These findings are placed within the context of the terminal phase of Christianity in the capital of the Kingdom of Makuria. Examples of liturgical implements found
Katarzyna de Lellis-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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