After a long summer break, JBAP team members showed up en masse to Munich earlier this month for the International Conference for Nubian Studies. We were excited to present our research, hear about other projects’ recent work, and most importantly, reunite with friends and colleagues. We were especially excited to see everyone from Sudan that […]
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While the number of our blogs this year has been somewhat fewer than last year (so far!), that doesn’t mean we’ve not been hard at work. Here are three updates on JBAP research and outreach to round off March – including one upcoming talk tomorrow, Wednesday 1 April:
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It’s been a while since our last blog, but the past weeks have been full of activity. Perhaps most importantly our Sudanese team members have continued to be hard at work in the field, yielding some amazing results – but we’ll write about that in detail in another post! Meanwhile… In January, there was encouraging
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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’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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Join us online! JBAP Director Geoff Emberling is presenting at The American Research Center in Egypt’s Washington DC chapter this weekend, Saturday 13 September. He will be giving a talk entitled, “New Light on Ancient Napata: Urban Center of the Empire of Kush”, which summarizes what the JBAP project has learned about the city plan,
JBAP Director Geoff Emberling talks at ARCE-DC this weekend! Read More »
As regular readers know, JBAP is committed to site conservation. And our co-directors of conservation, Elmontaser Dafalla and Suzanne Davis, are actively promoting awareness about conservation at Jebel Barkal, despite not being on site in Sudan. Recently, Suzanne presented a paper about their work at the American Institute for Conservation conference. Co-authored with Sami Elamin
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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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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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