Category Archives: Sai Island
A Report from a Visit to Sai Island by Magdalena Wozniak
After several years of absence from fieldwork on Sai Island, an opportunity appeared in June to resume some sort of work in the form of a reconnaissance trip and the writing of a report on the conditions of the site, … Continue reading
About Claude
It is rare to come across a reference to Sai Island in my everyday life in Bergen, unless this happens in the frame of my own research. Yesterday, however, one of these rare instances took place, where someone else brought … Continue reading
A Newly “discovered” Funerary Stela from Sai Island!
It is the first time that I haven’t written in the blog for so long, but this return does not imply that I will resume frequent blogging. However, it is a statement that medievalsaiproject.wordpress.com is alive and that if an … Continue reading
Medieval Sai at the Sonqi Tino Collaborative
The reason for returning to blogging is the organization of a workshop at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome. The workshop aimed at the study of the wall inscriptions found in the church of Sonqi Tino. Our host, Fr. Vincent … Continue reading
Closing 2016…
The year that ends in 24 hours has wounded us all in various ways. To put it mildly, it has raised many questions that we will need to find answers to. I am not referring particularly to things related with … 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
New look with a new book
It gives us a great pleasure to post the first entry in the new layout of our blog, which we hope that you will find improved in many levels – first and foremost to what concerns the access to the … Continue reading
Nothing really ends…
Today Dr. John Gait gave to us “A new look at old pots” by presenting his work with petrographic and macroscopic analyses of pottery from the Lower Nubian Nile Valley in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC. John was kind enough to allow … Continue reading
An unexpected honor…
We tend to be quite alert to glean from the Internet things referring to Nubia and Sudan, Sai Island, our projects. But it seems that some things always escape our attention, even if the agents of the things we’d like … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 