Community Engagement

New year, new guides, new conversations: JBAP steps into 2026 at full pace!

Community Engagement, News / /

JBAP is kicking off 2026 with momentum! Despite the ongoing war in Sudan, the project continues to expand its work, especially where archaeology, heritage, and community meet. Where war shifted travel, training builds opportunity One of JBAP’s important current initiatives is its tour guide training programme, launched by Tohamy Abulgasim, Sami Elamin and Rebecca Bradshaw […]

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JBAP in 2025: A Year Wrap-Up!

Community Engagement, Conservation, Events, Excavation, Funding, Ground Penetrating Radar, LiDAR, News, Publications / /

As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve taken time to reflect on a year of remarkable achievements, inspiring collaborations, and meaningful progress for the Jebel Barkal Archaeological Project. Despite challenges on the ground in Sudan, our team has been by far the most active international project in Sudan during the conflict, in terms of providing

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We’ve got some pretty exciting news!

Community Engagement, Excavation, LiDAR, News / /

We’re really pleased to report that the University of Michigan has released two major newsletters this fall—one from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and one from the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA)—and both publications spotlight our ongoing work at Jebel Barkal! OK, that might sound dull and routine, but we strongly suggest you read until

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JBAP Team Members present at conferences in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S.

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We’re proud to share that four of our team members — Tohamy Abulgasim, Geoff Emberling, Anwar Mahjoub and Rebecca Bradshaw — have been invited to present at major international conferences this fall. Each is sharing JBAP’s work on archaeology, community engagement, and heritage protection in Sudan and beyond. Tohamy Abulgasim at Al-Neelain University Conference —

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New Routledge publication by JBAP team members!

Community Engagement, Conservation, News, Publications / /

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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Upcoming AmSARC talk about recent Barkal excavations

Community Engagement, Excavation / /

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

Community Engagement, Events, News / /

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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