The MAEASaM project is delighted to have been awarded a grant by its funders Arcadia for a further five years from 30 June 2024, enabling us to build on all the work completed during Phase 1. Before we review Phase 1 and look ahead to Phase 2, a reminder of …
The MAEASaM project is dedicated to building capacity by training interns in various aspects of digitising heritage sites. This initiative aims to preserve invaluable archaeological data while equipping interns with essential skills in data management and digitisation. Here, Cheruiyot Victor Colson and Movin Kiprotich, two MAEASaM interns working at the …
Tohamy Abulgasim and Dana AlSalamin joined the MAEASaM project in January 2024 and December 2023 respectively and are based at the University of Cambridge. Here they give readers an insight into their work, part of which is using ‘legacy data’ to help map archaeological sites in Sudan. What is …
Since April 2023, an intense armed conflict has been waged in Sudan between two factions of the Sudanese military government, the military Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Fighting has been particularly severe around the capital, Khartoum, where most of the national museums and cultural …
