As you may recall, the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project was the subject of a 2023 National Geographic episode of “Lost Cities Revealed with Albert Lin“. One of the many great things about being a part of this project was that the Nat Geo team collected a great deal of data that we are still analyzing, […]
And now for something a bit different. Long-term JBAP team member Henrik Brahe has recently released his new photography book, “The Middle East: An Odyssey“, sponsored by the Danish Institute in Damascus and University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. A collection of more than 20 years of work in the Middle East and North
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We’re really pleased to alert JBAP website subscribers to a new paper of ours that’s just been published by Routledge! Titled “Community-Engaged Archaeology at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Jebel Barkal, Sudan“, the paper is the result of a writing collaboration between JBAP team members Rebecca Bradshaw, Tohamy Abulgasim, Suzanne Davis, Elmontaser Dafalla, Sami
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Join us online! On Wednesday 25 June, JBAP team member Tohamy Abulgasim will give a talk for the American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center. Titled, “Trowels and Tensions: Practicing Archaeology in Wartime Sudan”, Tohamy will talk about the preliminary results of the recent excavations he directed at Jebel Barkal between March and May, as well as the more
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Join us in person or online! On Saturday 17 May, JBAP team members Geoff Emberling, Tohamy Abulgasim and Pawel Wolf will be giving talks at the Sudan Archaeological Research Society’s W. Y. Adams Colloquium, Sudan: Past and Present 2025. Showing off the team’s expertise not only in the archaeology of Jebel Barkal, but of all
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Update: Geoff also wrote a nice piece about the season’s wrap-up for the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology blog! We’re now down to our last couple of posts about the Spring 2025 season. If you’re thinking to yourself that it feels like the team have only been on site for a hot second (meaning ‘not very
It’s been two weeks since our last substantive excavation post, so we have a lot to catch up on! The first – perhaps most exciting – development for us has been the opening of a new trench, imaginatively titled, ‘Trench 2’. Around 20m away from Trench 1 and orientated north-south, it immediately yielded a *huge*
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A key characteristic of the JBAP team is its diversity and emphasis on equality. Over the past five years, we have ensured that each research and managerial position on the project is held jointly by a Sudanese scholar and an international scholar. This pragmatic and, for Sudan, so far unique decision demonstrates our conceptualisation of
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A *very* quick note to share the news that the New Scientist wrote a feature about our research at Jebel Barkal! “Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed“ The article features interviews with JBAP team members Geoff Emberling, Sami Elamin, Tim Skuldbøl and Rebecca Bradshaw. For those who don’t subscribe
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One thing they don’t tell you about archaeology is that occasionally you’ll have to go the extra mile to protect your excavation. Given the location of our trench on a dirt track, this is what our team have been doing rather more frequently than we’d like, mainly chasing down cars to stop them from driving
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