Uronarti Project Published in Antiquity

The article in Antiquity, published December 10, 2019, describes a new survey program undertaken by the project team, focused on the Batn el-Hagar in Sudan. The Batn el-Hagar has traditionally been characterized as sparsely occupied during the Middle Kingdom Period, with most activity limited to the Egyptian fortresses along the Second Cataract, but the project's work offers evidence for a more richly occupied landscape.

Antiquity has published an article authored by Joukowsky Institute doctoral students Evan I. Levine and Miriam A.W. Rothenberg, with Oren Siegel, Christian Knoblauch, Laurel Bestock, and Lutz Klein: "The Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project: Second Cataract Fortresses and the Western Desert of Sudan."

Uronarti, an island in the Nile in Lower Nubia (modern Sudan), was the site of a major fortress constructed by the kings of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty. Brown University's Uronarti Regional Archaeological Project is working both to document the fortress and to better comprehend its setting in a complex physical and cultural landscape in order to illuminate the relationships between Egypt and Nubia at this critical period.