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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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
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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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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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I’m delighted to share this fantastic short video made by Jebel Barkal team member Sami Elamin. In it, he showcases work with children who are internally displaced due to ongoing fighting in Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum. The children arrive from local refugee shelters, explore the site museum and the site’s pyramids with archaeologists, learn
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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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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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