Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018
Journal Title: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean - Year 2018, Vol 27, Issue 1
Abstract
Tanqasi village lies on the left side of the river Nile, about 17 km downstream from Merowe city. A large tumuli field is located some kilometers southeast of the village toward the edge of the Bayuda Desert. It contains no less than 250 tumuli of various size and form of superstructure, varying from very large to very small, but only four of these have been excavated so far (three in 1953 and one in 2006). A new study program, starting in 2018 within the frame of the Early Makuria Research Project, has now explored five more tombs located in different parts of the cemetery, providing a broad chronological sequence from late to terminal Meroitic.<br/><br/>
Authors and Affiliations
Maciej Wyżgoł, Mahmoud El-Tayeb
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP560057
- DOI 10.5604/01.3001.0013.2004
- Views 49
- Downloads 0
In search of Nubian master-builders: an architectural drawing from the Cathedral in Faras.
A makeshift drawing from the Cathedral in Faras may be a depiction of the ground plan of a church. Nevertheless, the naive appearance of the sketch and an almost complete lack of sufficient parallels from either Nubia or...
Preliminary assessment of human remains from the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
Excavations over the course of many seasons by the Polish-Egyptian Mission in the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari have revealed the presence of multiple intrusive burials within and around the temple structure its...
Nea Paphos. Seasons 2014 and 2016 Appendix 1: Glass from the HH courtyard 1 Appendix 2: Note on the pottery from circular basin S.1/16
Excavation below the ancient ground surface of the main courtyard (1) of the “Hellenistic” House in Nea Paphos proved its construction to be later than the beginning of the 2nd century AD. A large rectangular basin and a...
Tell el-Retaba: season 2017
The 2017 season of archaeological excavation at the site of Tell el-Retaba in the Nile Delta in Egypt led to several interesting discoveries. Two of these concerned burials: a Hyksos tomb from the Second Intermediate Per...
Theoretical reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari
In a recent article Andrzej Ćwiek (2015) criticized on ideological grounds one of the hypotheses concerning the reconstruction of the Solar Altar in the Complex of the Sun Cult of the Temple of Hatshepsut in Deir el-Baha...