2018/04/11 by Maciej Wyżgoł, Mahmoud El-Tayeb · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #African history and culture analysis #Archaeology #Excavation #Geography #Nile delta #Ancient history #History
paper · doi:10.5604/01.3001.0013.2004
published in Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 27(1), 273-288
openalex publication_date 2018/04/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
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.