Overview to the first phase of the InterLINK project in North Kordofan.
The paper deals with the study of a prehistoric drainage system based on remote sensing data.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned work of the InterLINK project in North Kordofan had to be spontaneously cancelled in spring 2020. Instead, research focused on remote sensing of the area. [...]
This paper presents some medieval material from remote areas within the Bayuda and the Western Deserts in Sudan, and draws several conclusions about the presence of Christianity and the Makurian administration within them. [...]
Das Forschungsprojekt
„InterLINK – Interregional Linkage Investigations in Northern Kordofan“ der Forschungsstelle Alter Sudan erforscht mögliche Verbindungen zwischen den antiken und mittelalterlichen Kulturen des Nil
tals und ihren näheren und ferneren Nachbarn im Westen. {...]
The frontiers of the medieval Nubian states often evoke the riverine landscape of the Nile. For example, in a 2002 overview, Derek Welsby wrote, “virtually no sites [of medieval Nubia] are known outside the Nile valley.” [...]