El Kurru: A Royal City of Ancient Kush?

A MA student in the Netherlands is doing research on how effectively blogs and other social media communicate about archaeology. I'm in...

Our project is in the middle of our offseason; we've written a report on some of our work that will appear in the journal Sudan & N...

(guest post by Jack Cheng, our draftsman, artist, and my friend and colleague for almost 20 years!) In excavating the pyramid at El Kurr...

We’ve had a great team this season… (Left to right, sort of: Geoff Emberling, Martin Makinson, Rikke Therkildsen (she's in the back...

Between the hectic work at the end of the season and the terrible internet connection, I wasn’t able to post about our final results for t...

We have decided to remove the fallen rubble from the north face of the pyramid to see if there might be further indications of how and whe...

It continues to be an amazing experience to excavate a pyramid. I went into the innermost burial chamber that we are excavating afte...