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.
Then-Obłuska, Joanna
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Life and death in a medieval Nubian farming community : the experience at Mis Island [PDF]
"This dissertation focuses on a small farming community on the fringes of the medieval Nubian Christian Kingdom of Makuria, dating from the mid-fifth to the early fifteenth centuries AD.
Soler, Angela
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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 ...
Czyżewska-Zalewska, Ewa
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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian.
Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka
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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]
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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Among the Rocks – a first look at medieval Duweishat, from the archive.
The Duweishat area of the southern Batn al - Hajar seems likely to represent a not atypical rural settlement landscape of this notoriously rugged and inhospitable region, and one almost equidistant (c.
David N. Edwards (7579619)
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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement around the church at Banganarti in Sudan [PDF]
The assemblage of faunal remains from Banganarti subjected to archaeozoological examination counted 4178 bones and fragments of bones. They represented contexts recorded within the fortified settlement around the church in Banganarti, attributed to two ...
Osypińska, Marta
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Early Makuria Research Project: Interim report on the excavation at el-Detti in 2014 and 2015 with Appendix: Metal objects from the el-Detti cemetery [PDF]
Burial structures and the assemblages found inside them at the site of el-Detti, about 13 km downstream from Karima and 7 km upstream from el-Zuma, were explored in 2014 and 2015 by a joint team from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology ...
Kowarska, Zofia +3 more
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The Prospect for Study on the Settlement Changes in the Dongola Region after the Fall of Makuria Kingdom [PDF]
The paper focuses on the research perspectives of the so called Funj period in Dongola Reach. It also outlines the socio-political situation after the collapse of the Kingdom of Makuria and presents an interpretation of the processes based on the written
Wyżgoł, Maciej
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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.
El-Tayeb, Mahmoud, Wyżgoł, Maciej
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