 

#  Grantee Vincent Francigny ('13) and the Sedeinga necropolis in Sudan in the news 

 





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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