Funding

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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