Researcher of ERC project DiverseNile (2020-2022)

Main areas of research:

Kushite Egypt, Napatan and Meroitic periods of the Kingdom of Kush, Cultural Transfer betweenEgypt and Kush and vice versa, Cultural History of Nubia, Sacral/Festival Architectureand Religious Festivals in Kushite Thebes and Late Period Egypt

Education:

Since December 2008 Doctoral studies in Egyptology and Sudanarchaeology, Thesis title »25th Dynasty Kiosks and Entrance Colonnades in Egypt and Nubia, with a focus on Kushite Thebes« (First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Frank Kammerzell), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2006 Obtaining academic degree of M.A. Magister Artium (grade 1,0), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

October 1999 – March 2006 Studies in Egyptology, Sudanarchaeology and Classical Archaeology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

October 2003 – March 2004 Studies in Egyptology, Università degli Studi di Roma »La Sapienza«

Career History:

Since April 2020: Researcher of ERC project DiverseNile, LMU Munich

Since July 2018: Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Julia Budka, Institute for Egyptology and Coptology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

December 2017 – June 2018: Research Associate in AcrossBorders (ERC Starting Grant project Prof. Dr. Julia Budka),Institute for Egyptology and Coptology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

July 2014 – December 2016: Project Member at the »Friedrich W. Hinkel Archive Digitization Project«, Friedrich W. Hinkel Research Centre, GermanArchaeological Institute, Headquarters, Berlin

May, November 2011 – January 2012: Research Associate at the Officeof the Secretary-General, Scientific Department, German Archaeological Institute, Headquarters,Berlin

June – December 2011: Research Associate at the GHS-Project »Totenkult im Tempelgrab – Zur Rekonstruktion funerärer Praktiken im spätzeitlichen Theben (Ägypten)« (Prof. Dr. Julia Budka), Austrian Academy of Sciences/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

September 2006 – May 2011: Research Assistant at theOffice of the Secretary-General and the Edidorial Office, Scientific Department, German Archaeological Institute, Headquarters,Berlin

November 2010 – January 2011: Scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for Luxor/Egypt

Field Work:

January – February 2012: Sai Island/Sudan, Université Lille III/Austrian Academyof Sciences (Prof. Dr.Julia Budka)

October – November 2009, February – March 2008, October – November 2007: Luxor, Asasif/Egypt, Austrian Academy of Sciences/Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Dr. Julia Budka)

February – March 2004, March 2003: Musawwarat es Sufra/Sudan, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Dr. Steffen Wenig)

February 2003: Hamadab/Sudan, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/University of Shendi Sudan)(Dr. Pawel Wolf)

Juny– July 2002: Innsbruck, Goldbühel /Austria, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck (Prof.Dr. Gerhard Tomedi)

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Upcoming DiverseNile Seminar: Recent work in the Northern Butana

Veröffentlicht am 1. Juli 2025 von Julia Budka

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I am delighted to announce the next DiverseNile seminar, which will take place before the summer break.

Ahmed Nassr will be speaking on the topic of: „Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic landscape use variabilities in central Sudan, view from recent discoveries in Northern Butana“. Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism and Archaeology at the College of Arts at the University of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia.

He specialises in Palaeolithic and Neolithic Sudan and has conducted a wide range of surveys and excavations in various regions of Sudan.

Ahmed kindly wrote an abstract highlighting the content of his upcoming lecture, which I am happy to share here:

“During July 2022 we carried out an archaeological survey in northern Butana (NB) in the area so called Dihaira in the Atbara/Nile triangle. The survey covered the area south of Edamr about 40 km into the fringes of the Butana 80 km in the south, and 20 km east of the Nile to the western margin of Atbara paleo-lake about 60 km. Multiple methods applied including desktop archaeological exploration, landscape ground survey, systematic survey, and test excavations.

The concession is adjacent to two major prehistoric sites (Atbara and Butana), which are of significant importance for understanding human adaptation, cultural evolution and mobility within the central Sudan region. Building on the results of our previous fieldwork in Atbara and the Middle Nile, the NB project was established to understand the range of landscape units exploited by Middle Stone Age (MSA) groups and subsequent prehistoric inhabitants, and to explore the relationship between the hinterland of Butana and the riverine zone.

This lecture tries to present the outcomes of the inaugural survey of the first season, which recorded ninety new archaeological sites. These sites found in variable landscapes, and encompass high-density concentrations of stone artifacts, burial sites, and stratified contexts spanning various periods from Middle Paleolithic, Early and late Neolithic, and Meroitic. The data collected from site surfaces, surface cleaning of MSA sites, excavation of terminal Neolithic sites supported by comprehensive classification and C14 dating.”

Don’t miss this opportunity to find out about a very promising field project in Sudan!

Munich University Attab to Ferka Survey Project

This is the blog of the MUAFS Project in Sudan

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Upcoming DiverseNile Seminar: Recent work in the Northern Butana