16.06.2022

Berlin Sudan Day 2022

Dear ISNS Members,Berlin Sudan Day 2022 may be of interest to you. The announcement follows below, and further details are attached. Please contact the organisers directly with any queries. Best wishes Julie Dear Friends of the archaeology of Sudan, We would like to cordially invite you to the “Berlin Sudan Day 2022” onSaturday, June 18, 2022. This […]

05.05.2022

Lecture YouTube: Pharaon des Deux Terres. L’épopée africaine des rois de Napata

Dear Colleagues, An exhibition entitled Pharaon des Deux Terres. L’épopée africaine des rois de Napata opened recently in the Louvre, Paris and will run from 28 April to 25 July 2022. An introduction to the exhibition was presented by Vincent Rondot on 4 May and is now available on YouTube. It may be of interest to you. The […]

05.05.2022

15th ICNS

Registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies is now open only for participants that do not submit papers.

05.05.2022

Abu Erteila exhibition – Rome

Dear Colleagues, A small exhibition about Abu Erteila will take place in Rome from 15 April – 12 June 2022 and may be of interest to you. Please see the attached flyer for more information. An Italian-Arabic catalogue of the exhibition has also been published and information concerning it may be found here:  http://www.scienzeelettere.it/book/50352.htmlPlease contact the organisers directly […]

17.01.2022

DiverseNile Seminar Series 2022

Dear Colleagues, The following may be of interest:Attached please find the programme for the 2022 DiverseNile online lecture series ‘Landscape and Resource Management in Bronze Age Nubia’. Please address any questions to the seminar organisers. All the best, Julie

15.01.2022

Steffen Wenig

Dear Colleagues, I am very sorry to inform you that Steffen Wenig passed away on 11 January 2022. Attached please find a short obituary courtesy of Angelika Lohwasser, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and Pawel Wolf, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.  Sincerely Julie

03.01.2022

Mograt Island resource and ‘Kushite Kingdom Manga’

Dear Colleagues,  We would like to draw your attention to a new bilingual Arabic-English resource on Sudanese archaeology is available for viewing and free download on the Mograt website: https://www.mogratarchaeology.com/en.  The “Kushite Kingdom manga” comic book was developed collaboratively by UCL PhD student Amanda Ford Spora and teen artists from the Harris Academy Chobham in London, using 3D print […]

03.01.2022

Dotawo Readers Survey

Dear ISNS members,The Editorial Board of Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies would be grateful if you would participate in an anonymous survey concerning the readership and content of Dotawo. Results generated by this survey will be discussed during a workshop at the forthcoming ISNS conference in Warsaw.The link to the survey may be found here: https://ergamenis.cloud68.co/apps/forms/Rk8Mg9MddRWFeq9L Sincerely, […]

03.01.2022

Registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies

Dear Colleagues,  We are happy to announce that the registration for the 15th International Conference for Nubian Studies is now open and the registration form is available on the Conference website: https://nubianstudies2022.uw.edu.pl/registration2/ The deadline for submitting your paper proposals is 31 March 2022.   For more information see the enclosed Third Circular  For updates check the conference webpage: https://nubianstudies2022.uw.edu.pl/ and Facebook profile:https://www.facebook.com/Nubian-Studies-2022 […]

04.11.2021

The Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. Provisional type series of monuments

The Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project. Provisional type series of monuments by Zbigniew Borcowski and Derek Welsby is available online.