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Kordofan is a region in Sudan between the course of the (White) Nile to the east and the Darfur highlands to the west. Its landscape units stretch from the subtropical hills of the Nuba mountains in the south, over the savannah rangelands in the centre, to the arid semi-desert of the northern part of Kordofan. The main wadi system of Kordofan is the Wadi Melek, originating near Nahud and draining into the great southern bend of the Nile. The focus of our project is between the hills of Jebel al-Ain and Jebe
Until the initiation of our project, the large region of Kordofan had been scarcely explored archaeologically. After some geographical surveys carried out by British officers in the 1920’s, leading to the discovery of the ruined sites of Zankor by A.E.D. Penn and of Abu Sufyan by D. Newbold, almost no archaeological explorations were conducted until 2002, when a mission of the Charles de Gaulle University of Lille led by Brigitte Gratien started prospections and excavations at both beforementioned sites. Th
From 2008 onwards, a mission of the University of Khartoum, led by Houwida Mohammed, conducted prospections in Northern Kordofan, starting in the district of Sodiri.
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