Nuri Archaeological Expedition

01/03/2022

We’re excited to announce that Nuri is one of 25 sites on World Monuments Fund’s 2022 ! These are sites of great cultural significance whose preservation is urgent and vital to local communities. To explore them all, visit:

The 2022 Watch spotlights 25 heritage sites of extraordinary significance, facing pressing challenges, and where World Monuments Fund’s partnership with local communities has the potential to make a meaningful difference. The 2022 open call resulted in more than 225 nominations that underwent exte...

16/08/2021

Keep an eye out for a new special featuring our work on NatGeoTV!

Archaeologists dive into a flooded pyramid near the Nile, to search for a king's burial that could reveal clues about the ancient kingdom of Kush. National Geographic for everyone in everywhere

05/03/2021

Be sure to register for tomorrow’s panel to hear more about archaeology in Sudan!

28/01/2020

Throughout this season, we’ve been working on mapping and excavating what appears to be an early Christian cemetery. It’s proved to be very dusty, but interesting, work and we even found a fragment of a reused Greek stela!

17/01/2020

One of our project goals is to understand Nuri better as a landscape. As part of that goal, we wanted to identify the location of a temple last seen by Reisner in the early 1900s. This will allow us to update the maps and plans published in Dunham’s publication of Nuri, in addition to better understanding this important monument.

This season is focusing on test excavations to pinpoint the location and depth of the temple and hopefully next season we’ll start to clear the entire structure. It’s taken a fair bit of digging but we’ve found a corner! Stay tuned for more pics!

14/01/2020

We’ve found some beautiful pottery so far this season! Vessels like these seem to have been purposefully broken and used to line Meroitic burials. They’ve definitely been keeping our ceramicist busy.

10/01/2020

Digging at Nuri is a bit tricky. The sand is so loose it is nearly impossible to get straight walls in your excavation units. You do get really beautiful sand-falls though and with all the mica in the sand, they’re super sparkly too!

06/01/2020

Very happy to report that the paintings in the tomb of Queen Yeturow (Nu53) are still beautiful and there’s no water on the floor this year! 👍🏻

24/12/2019

First day on site went very well! We can’t think of any better office than this one. 😎

21/12/2019

Very happy to be back in Sudan and to see our wonderful colleagues! 🇸🇩 We hope to keep you updated as the field season progresses!

31/07/2019

Thanks to support from the Rust Family Foundation and the Universty of Arizona’s Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation, we will explore the demography of Kush through two paleogenetic (ancient DNA) projects in 2019-2020.

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