June 14, 2018
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
Also, numerous articles have been published by others on the recent discoveries at the necropolis.
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6539-180411-sudan-meroitic-texts
https://www.sciencealert.com/nubian-funerary-artefacts-meroitic-texts-found-in-sedeinga-sudan
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