Rebecca Bradshaw – Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project

A setback for our project: Funding cancellation and what it means moving forward

Funding, News / Rebecca Bradshaw / March 5, 2025

We’ve just received some difficult news: our project’s funding from the US State Department’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation has been cancelled. This is the grant that has supported our community engagement and site protection and preservation efforts since 2022, and it’s particularly painful because it has allowed us to employ (and thus support) about […]

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Reminder: Event today!

Community Engagement, Events / Rebecca Bradshaw / February 18, 2025

Our sister project at El-Kurru has announced the upcoming release of a children’s book! The book, Leaving Our Mark: El-Kurru Past, Present and Future, is written for young people who want to learn about local archaeological heritage at the UNESCO World Heritage site at El-Kurru. As some of you may know, El-Kurru was an important

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New children’s book celebrates vibrant heritage of El-Kurru

Community Engagement, Events, News / Rebecca Bradshaw / January 31, 2025

Hear all about it on Tuesday 18 February! After a slightly quiet 2024, we are grateful to have yet more good news in 2025! Fresh off the back of the news that the JBAP project will receive a $1.15M gift from donor Steve Klinsky, our sister project at El-Kurru has announced the upcoming release of a

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We’re Ramping Up Our Game! Fresh Funding Boosts Our Mission – And Not a Moment Too Soon

Funding, News / Rebecca Bradshaw / December 19, 2024

On 12 December, the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology made an extremely exciting announcement: they have received an astonishingly generous $1.15M gift from the prominent businessman and U-M alumnus, Steve Klinsky. This extraordinary donation will fund five of Michigan’s archaeological missions across Africa, Asia, and North America – and excitingly for us, includes

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Walkie Talkie! Community work at Jebel Barkal

Community Engagement / Rebecca Bradshaw / October 31, 2023

Salaam! My name is Tohamy Abulgasim and I am the co-director of the Community Engagement arm of the Jebel Barkal project. I’m here today to tell you a little bit about our work during the 2023 season. During the 2022 season we had established a very good connection and built trust with the community that

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Community engagement at Barkal

Community Engagement / Rebecca Bradshaw / March 4, 2022

During this field season, we launched a community engagement program as part of the conservation project for the ancient temples at Jebel Barkal. Co-directed by Tohamy Abulgasim Khalifa (University of Khartoum) and Rebecca Bradshaw (United Arab Emirates University), the aims of this part of the project are to: Create and delivering engagement strategies to foster

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