Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018
2018, 27, No. 1
University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej
University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej
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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.
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