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!
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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.
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Our Field Director Geoff Emberling gave a talk at the Harvard Semitic Museum this past fall and his presentation is now available to view on YouTube:
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Figure 1 – The main street in Kurru in the early morning hours before work. Waleed’s shop, where we buy snacks and supplies but most importantly bottled water, is on the left less than 100m from our front door and the barber shop, painted green, is right across the street! 14 Dec 2018 Gregory Tucker…
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Figure 1 – Collecting magnetic data on our first day of survey at Jebel Barkal (photo by Abdelbaki Salahadin Mohamend). 7 Dec 2018 Gregory Tucker This week for the #fieldworkfriday I would like to share with you a bit of where I am and what I’m doing in the field. This month I’ve come to…
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Figure 1 – Jebel Barkal (photo taken during 2016 fieldwork) 30 Nov 2018 Gregory Tucker Welcome to the first of a series of blog posts that I plan on writing every Friday over the next few weeks for the Kelsey Museum’s #fieldworkfriday series! This happens to coincide perfectly with our rest day in the field,…
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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…
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(guest post by Jack Cheng, our draftsman, artist, and my friend and colleague for almost 20 years!) In excavating the pyramid at El Kurru, we calculated that about 100 tons of fill had been deposited in just the last room (similar amounts were removed from the first two rooms in last season). Some of the…
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Between the hectic work at the end of the season and the terrible internet connection, I wasn’t able to post about our final results for the season. So in the next few days, I’ll write about where things stand and our plans for next season. Our most dramatic result was in the burial chamber of…
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