From BBC, A team of Swiss and French archaeologists unearth statues of Nubian kings, in Sudan.

The Archaeology, history and Culture of Nubia and northern Sudan.

A brief history of the site of Gebel Barkal, Nubia.

Portrait and illustrated biography of Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) focussing on his archeological excavations in the central Sudan, by Ahmed A.A. Adeel, with references.

Images with description. ca. 2600 to 1550 B.C.E.

The availability of large databases from the previous survey and excavation in Northern Nubia, the Third Cataract (Mahas) region, and parts of the Dongola Reach, means that we are in a position to develop working research foci that sample the Fourth Cataract so as to provide significant comparative data for addressing a wider and long-term research agenda.

From Archaeology, mapping of standing stones and megalithic structures in the Nubian Desert suggests that the Neolithic nomads who once inhabited the area were not only monitoring the heavens, but recording what they saw in monumental form.

From AngolaPress, historians may have to revise their history of the Nile River valley following the recent discovery of seven statues in Karma, south of the Third Cataract, which represented monarchs during the ancient Nubian Kingdom.

University of Khartoum project undertaking a regional study of the archaeology and long-term history of the Mahas region of Middle Nubia, northern Sudan.

Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago project to salvage in the reservoir area of the Aswan High Dam (1960-64).

For three weeks in 1997, four archaeologists from Britain and an archaeologist form the National Museum in Khartoum carried out survey along the 237 km length of a planned roadline connecting Khartoum to the great bend in the Nile.

To be held at the University of Rome 9-14 2002. Contact information.