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 […]
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A quick note to alert JBAP website subscribers to newly published research produced by our busy team! In the latest issue of the Sudan & Nubia journal, we present the results of *five years* of investigation, excavation and conservation at Jebel Barkal. Key findings from our 2018-23 seasons include: · The existence of dense urban architecture all
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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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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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It’s been too long since the Barkal project has posted. But we wanted to announce a short talk this Friday at noon Eastern time on steps we are taking with our colleagues in Sudan to address heritage issues in the current conflict. Announcement below. Flash Talk | Archaeology, Heritage, and the Civil War in Sudan
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Hello everyone! I will be giving a talk about Jebel Barkal at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles this coming Saturday, December 3 at 3 pm Pacific time. If you have heard me speak about Barkal this year, there will not be much that is new in this talk (although of course I keep making
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We recently returned from the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies at the University of Warsaw. Our hosts in Warsaw organized the conference beautifully, and it was particularly good to see the excellent representation of about 50 Sudanese and 15 Egyptian scholars who were able to come to Warsaw. Funding for travel costs is always
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Geoff Emberling will be giving a lecture hosted by the Stanford Archaeology Center this Wednesday, May 4 at 12 noon Pacific time. The talk will be streamed online and you can register here: https://archaeology.stanford.edu/events/collaborative-archaeology-kush-northern-sudan-recent-work-around-jebel-barkal.
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