Category Archives: archaeology
Poles on the Nile
Sometimes you wonder why you have not heard for a long time from friends from abroad, how they are doing with their lives, when will you catch up with them and discuss again the projects that you work on together. … Continue reading
A death and a memorial
The previous entry listed Nubiological and Sudanological events of the month of May. We left out a new series of memorial lectures to commemorate the life of Kazimierz Michałowski that our friend and colleague Artur Obluski will inaugurate in the … Continue reading
Events in May
Last time I wrote in the blog, I referred to the participation of Cornelia Kleinitz in the SARS annual colloquium in London next week. Those who will have the chance to be there on the 9th of May will attend a … Continue reading
Czechs in the Middle Nile
A couple of days ago we received an email announcing the prolongation of the deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers for the 12th Meroitic Conference in Prague in September. There is now time until the 20th of January … Continue reading
A couple of Nubiological goals for 2016
It is always a strange feeling writing the first words of something, be that a book, an article, the first blog entry of a new year. Obviously, the last category is the object here, and since a blog entry is not … Continue reading
A weekend of archaeopolitcs in Bergen
On 21 November, we organized the round-table seminar Cultural heritage in conflicts and politics – Ethical dilemmas for archaeologists at the University of Bergen (Norway). The seminar was a response to how the cultural heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle … Continue reading
Working with OINE from UiB!
The last weeks I have been working with the last draft of the first of the two volumes in the Oriental Institute of Chicago Nubian Expedition (OINE) monograph series that will host the publication of the archaeological record from the … Continue reading
A trip to England, autumn 2015
It has been exactly a year since I last traveled with British Airways from Bergen to London. Then, I was heading for the Conference of Afro-Byzantine and Greco-African Studies at the University of Johannesburg. This time, it was a journey … Continue reading
A new Dr. of Sudan Archaeology
On Friday, Henriette defended successfully her PhD thesis with the topic “War on the southern frontier of the emerging state of ancient Egypt: A warfare perspective on the history of the A-Group people in Lower Nubia during the 4th millennium … Continue reading
Aurora in Norway, Bayuda in Münster, Christian Nubia in Leeds, and Meroe in Prague
Yesterday, I participated in a very interesting workshop organized by the Research Group on African and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bergen, in the frame of a project that began with funds from the French-Norwegian mobility grant Aurora (for a … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 