Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018

Early Makuria Research Project. Excavations at Tanqasi: first season in 2018

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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 Lunch Boxes 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 DECORATION 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.