At the request of Ariab Mining Co, SFDAS carried out a reconnaissance mission with a view to preparing a development plan for archaeological deposits threatened in the short term by mine work. This reconnaissance...
Jacques Reinold, Yves Lecointe, Jean Bialais SFDAS spent a month surveying the region between Khandaq and Debba. This programme identified more than a hundred ancient Christian and Islamic sites.
Under the supervision of Patrice Lenoble Team: Mahmoud el Sheikh el Tayeb, Ussama Abdelrahman el Nur, Mohamed Hassan Basha, Hassan Bandi, Abdelrahman Ali Mohamed The el-Hobagi site, located on the left bank of the...
For two months, the NCAM and the SFDAS jointly surveyed the IVth cataract region. Seven hundred sites were recorded on the left bank of the Nile and on the main islands, from Hamadab to...
Under the direction of Francis Geus Team: Jacques Reinold, Patrice Lenoble, Yves Lecointe, Pascal Ginailhac, Daniel Connoioux, René-Pierre Dissaux, Pierre Vandeplanque, Denis Piponnier, Annick Duflos, Paul Koren, Max Schvoerer, Claude Ney, Anne Rouannet, Florence...
A royal Meroitic settlement from the 1st century AD, a day’s caravan journey from Meroe Around Meroe, the capital, the Meroitic power grouped its religious, royal, administrative and economic buildings in towns such as...
The Damboya archaeological site, 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) of...
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 known to Western explorers in the 19th century, who described the ruins of the Egyptian temple dedicated to Queen Tiyi. Michela Schiff Giorgini’s team, who had already been exploring...
Sai Island is a reflection of Nubia as a whole, divided between the history of Egypt and that of the Kushite kingdoms of ancient Sudan. The first excavation site to inaugurate the Franco-Sudanese archaeological...
