We’re pleased to share three recent updates from our work in April, spanning research, funding, and cultural heritage work at Jebel Barkal. 1. Our PNAS paper is now officially published! After being under embargo for what felt like months, our latest research paper, Holocene Nile dynamics shaped the physical and cultural landscape of ancient Nubia, […]
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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 delighted to share that the Robert Anderson Trust is now accepting applications for its Visiting Scholars Programme for 2026 – and strongly encourages Sudanese researchers to apply. Relevant research topics include “all ancient and historic cultures of Sudan, and also museum studies/museology, and heritage management with a focus on ancient or historic sites and
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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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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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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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Hello everyone, I wanted to thank you all for supporting our archaeological colleagues working at Jebel Barkal during this very difficult time in Sudan. We were able to raise just over $4000 and I have now sent it all to help our colleagues. The interim manager of Jebel Barkal, Sami Elamin, asked me to pass
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Hello everyone, It has been awhile since we’ve posted on the Jebel Barkal blog. We’ve been busy and I’ll write more about what we’ve been doing in the coming weeks. But for now, I would like to ask for financial help for our colleagues in Sudan. As you may know, the civil war in Sudan
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Dear Readers, As you know, Sudan is in crisis and facing many different and difficult challenges. The American Sudanese Archaeological Research Center (AmSARC) has organized a fund to support our colleagues with the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM). They need our help to maintain their positions and safeguard cultural heritage throughout Sudan! AmSARC
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We have lost a good friend. Kathleen (“Kitty”) Picken passed away in Des Moines, Iowa on March 3, 2023 after a short illness (https://www.overtonfunerals.com/obituary/kathleen-kitty-picken). She has been a friend and supporter of our projects at El-Kurru and Jebel Barkal from the beginning of our work in Sudan in 2013. This continued her long-standing interest in
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