Tag Archives: Medieval Nubia
Sudan & Nubia 23
Once again with an interval of a year, I return to the presentation of the new Sudan & Nubia volume, No. 23, which arrived at my post-box last week. There are several reasons to decide writing this blog post these … Continue reading
Nubia as companion to Byzantium in Wiley-Blackwell’s Companion to Byzantium
In the last years, the major publishing houses have begun an interesting competition in producing handbooks about all topics possible (see for example HERE for Oxford’s on Byzantine Studies). Recently, I came across one of these impressive volumes in the library … Continue reading
Lent lectures
One of the main reasons for our visit to Greece this time of the year had to do with the lecture that Alexandros is giving the coming Thursday at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens. But there are of … Continue reading
An academic return to the Benaki Museum
After reviewing the 15th volume of Sudan & Nubia in the previous entry and while waiting a very interesting and important supplement to that review, the time has come to take the Medieval Sai Project back to Athens, to the … Continue reading
Past, present, and future discoveries
In the previous entry, we were referring to life on Sai in the dig house of the French Mission from the University of Lille. A particular importance of this house is that it hosts most of the archaeological material found … Continue reading
Nubia and the West
From a Conference taking place these days, we pass to some comments about an all-day Symposium held at the Royal Ontario Museum on September 25. The opportunity was given by a post from yesterday at LiveScience. But let’s take things with the … Continue reading
GNM lecture at the Norwegian Institute at Athens – or: the return from art to archaeology!
On the occasion of the first week of the exhibition of photographs at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, titled “From Nubia to Sudan through the eyes of the Greek-Norwegian Archaeological Mission“, a lecture was organized at the Norwegian Institute … Continue reading
From Nubia to Sudan: A photo exhibition at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
There are some moments in life that need time to sink in and allow a full apprehension of their significance. This is for us the case with the opening of our photo exhibition at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, … Continue reading
Nubian Studies in Chicago
A week after presenting Nubian Studies in the frame of the 22nd Byzantine Congress of Sofia, new tasks find Alexandros in Chicago! His research trip there was generously supported by a grant from The Institute for Comparative Research in Human … Continue reading
Nubian Studies at the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies
In the beginning of the previous entry, the return of Henriette to Bergen brought along the news discussed there. In the week that passed, Alexandros had remained in the European South, more precisely in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he attended the … Continue reading
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