El Kurru and other sites in ancient Napata (modern Sudan) are featured in an 84 minute documentary called “Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs,” available for streaming in the US at this link: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/lost-kingdom-of-the-black-pharaohs/full-episodes/lost-kingdom-of-the-black-pharaohs Let us know what you think!

Director Geoff Emberling and head of Conservation Suzanne Davis have collaborated on a new museum exhibit at the Kelsey Museum in Ann Arbor. The exhibition focuses on graffiti at the site of El Kurru. Link to the exhibit website here.

We have a new gate at El Kurru to welcome visitors. From the main road to Karima, it’s now clearer how to enter the site. Put up in January, it reaffirms El Kurru’s place as part of the Jebel Barkal UNESCO World Heritage Site. The new pise wall that the gate is part of also…

As we try to integrate Cultural Heritage into our archaeological project, it’s worth seeing what others in the area are doing. A group called the Swiss Initiative is dedicated to creating and supporting cultural projects in “conflict countries.” They have a project Karmakol, not far from our site (we’re near Karima). Here’s their website. In…