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

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

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

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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More Community Engagement at Jebel Barkal – See it in ACTION!

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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Two online lectures about Jebel Barkal

I’ve recently given two lectures about our work at Jebel Barkal and both are now online. The first (October 6) was a 15-minute “flash talk” given through the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan (my home institution) about “Archaeology, Heritage, and the Civil War in Sudan.” Link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORqcRpBXZ-4 The second

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