2013 program grantee Vincent Francigny and the French Archaeological Unit Sudan Antiquities Service have been in the news recently. An article on Roman board games discovered in elite Meroitic graves has been published in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 167, No. 1 (2017) : https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.167.1.0023