🇬🇧 El-Hassa
A royal Meroitic settlement from the 1st century AD, a day’s caravan journey from Meroe Around Meroe, the capital, the Meroitic power concentrated its religious, royal, administrative, and economic buildings in towns such as...
Excavations campaigns conducted by the SFDAS.
A royal Meroitic settlement from the 1st century AD, a day’s caravan journey from Meroe Around Meroe, the capital, the Meroitic power concentrated its religious, royal, administrative, and economic buildings in towns such as...
The Damboya archaeological site, first identified in 1975 and surveyed in 2002 by Patrice Lenoble and Vincent Rondot, is located 270 km north of Khartoum near Shendi, close to the el-Hassa concession (1.7 km...
Neolithic necropolises in the Ouadi el-Khowi Under the direction of Olivier Langlois, Philippe Chambon, Pascal Sellier. Team: Emma Maines (PhD student, Paris I), Aline Thomas (anthropologist, UMR 7206), Louiza Aoudia (anthropologist, Paris X), Rebiha...
The site of Sedeinga was first noted by Western explorers in the 19th century, who described the ruins of the Egyptian temple dedicated to Queen Tiyi. In 1963, Michela Schiff Giorgini’s team—already working at...
Sai Island is a microcosm of Nubia itself—divided between the history of Egypt and that of the Kushite kingdoms of ancient Sudan. It was the first excavation site to launch Franco-Sudanese archaeological cooperation in...
Kerma-Doukki Gel, capital of the Kingdom of Kush and sacred city of the Black Pharaohs The sites of Kerma and Doukki Gel form a vast archaeological complex that extends over more than 22 hectares,...