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Shedding light on the Sudanese Dark Ages: Geophysical research at Old Dongola, a city-state of the Funj period (16th-19th centuries). [PDF]
Archaeol Prospect, 2022 Abstract The article presents the results of magnetic and ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) research carried out in Old Dongola in northern Sudan in 2018 and 2020, within the framework of a project designed to investigate the transition from Christianity to Islam taking place in the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria.
Obłuski A, Herbich T, Ryndziewicz R.
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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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Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2022 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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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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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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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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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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Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1363-1382, December 2021., 2021 In contrast to contemporaneous Byzantine and Egyptian textual accounts, little is known about medieval Nubian monastic diets. Femur samples from 30 monks interred at Ghazali monastery (occupied ca. 680–1,275 CE), Sudan were examined for δ13Ccol and δ15N.
R. J. Stark +2 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1255-1271, December 2021., 2021 The mobility of the Blemmyes between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea coast, and their skill in trading, are well attested in the literary sources and in the archaeological record. While they operated mainly in the Eastern Desert, their cemeteries, dated to the mid‐fourth century ce, were located in the strategic region of the Dodekaschoinos of Lower ...
J. Then‐Obłuska, L. Dussubieux
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Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450–550). Early Makuria Research Project [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 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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