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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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 long’ for those not down with Gen Z lingo) then you’re half right: it has been HOT! The
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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UPDATE: If you missed this, you can always catch up and watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6RhW1a1wevc Five months ago, JBAP was lucky enough to become recipients of funding provided by businessman and U-M alumnus, Steve Klinsky. Since then, we’ve been working harder than ever to ramp up our game – and we’ve begun in one of
“Digging Deeper: The Klinsky Expeditions” – Join us on April 17th! Read More »
Last week, once free of the top layer of sand, and having battled a sudden bout of rain – a slight antidote to the 40-degree heat!, our team was faced with its first mini-mystery. And here it is: The trench is cut in the position we finally decided on (see our last post): So what’s
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We know it’s been a mixed bag of news from us recently, what with one round of funding won and another lost; the release of new publications celebrating the results of years of work contrasting with the ongoing reports of cultural catastrophe at the National Museum. But we can’t help but relish being back doing
We’re back on site! Read More »
It’s with extremely heavy hearts that we share the news that Sudan’s National Museum has been extensively looted. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has used the museum as a military base (and allegedly its grounds as a cemetery) since the beginning of the war in April 2023. Many have feared for the safety of
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