Egypt & Sudan

This grant is for the preparation of a multi-authored, two-volume publication of the University of Michigan’s excavation of the late third millennium BCE mastaba tomb complex of Weni the Elder in the Middle Cemetery at Abydos, Egypt. A synopsis in Arabic...

Archaeological investigations of the region between Gash and the Atbara rivers were conducted in the Eighties by the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Sudan (Kassala) of the Istituto Universitario Orientale and the Butana Archaeological Project of...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . The last stage of the construction of an elevated highway connecting the main road to Cairo with the western harbour of Alexandria in 1996 in Gabbari district led to the discovery of a series of...

This grant will be for the publication of the American regional survey in the south-western Nile Delta, conducted between 1977 and 1983 by W.D.E. Coulson, with A. Leonard Jr. and N. Wilkie, which, apart from fieldwork at Naukratis itself, was never...

The ancient town site of Deir el-Ballas is located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt in the neighborhood of the modern town known as Dayr Al Gharbi ( 26° 3" N - 32° 45" E.) about 30 km. north of Western Thebes. Circumscribed by a bay in...

The ancient town site of Deir el-Ballas is located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt in the neighborhood of the modern town known as Dayr Al Gharbi ( 26° 3" N - 32° 45" E.) about 30 km. north of Western Thebes. Circumscribed by a bay in...

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant will support the costs of preparing the second volume of the final report of the excavations at Tell el-Borg, which took place between 1999 and 2008. Tell el-Borg is an crucial military...

The precinct area of the Amun temple at Karnak constitutes one of the largest religious complexes of ancient Egypt and was the socio-economic heart of the Pharaonic civilization during 2000 years. Understanding its development remains a top priority for...

PUBLISHED 2018. Please visit the publication's webpage. The world-famous Egyptian necropolis at Giza is located to the west of Cairo. It contains unique monuments of the III-I millennia BC preserved under the patronage of UNESCO. The Russian...

PUBLISHED 2015. Please visit the publication's webpage. The world-famous Egyptian necropolis at Giza is located to the west of Cairo. It contains unique monuments of the III-I millennia BC preserved under the patronage of UNESCO. The Russian...