Egypt
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/818/he2.htm "One of the most important achievements during the Nubia Salvage Operations under the auspices of UNESCO in the 1960s was unquestionably the discovery of an ancient cathedral in Faras which contained wall paintings...
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...
Egypt
Polish conservators have secured a unique monument in Sudan
Science and Scholarship in Poland
At the turn of 2011/2012, Polish scientists secured medieval paintings in the so-called Raphelion, or religious buildings dedicated to the Archangel Raphael in Banganarti, Sudan. This unique church building from mid-eleventh century was an important pilgrimage centre of in the Christian kingdom Makurii until mid-fourteenth century. Necessary conservation work was possible wilt financial support of PKN Orlen.
"In addition to conservation, we have also performed restoration and protection work. W stabilised substrate layers, exterminated insects feeding in the layer of plaster, and cleaned and preserved the colour scheme of the most important paintings" - said Dr. Bogdan T. Żurawski from the Department of African Cultures of the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures PAS, head of research. Work in Banganarti is conducted under a concession of the Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of Warsaw.
Moreover, in the chapel of the holy healers Cosma and Damian, using the strip belt method (not destroying the inscriptions on the walls) Polish conservators unveiled earlier paintings. This allowed Nubian wall painting experts to look at the previously covered iconographic themes.
- Archaeological Dig In Sudan
Polish Market Online A team of Polish and Sudanese archeologists works in El Zuma region where the sacred mountain Gebel Barkal was located and first Christian commune Old Dongola emerged’ Mahmoud el Tayeb. Sudanese archaeologist and professor at the...
- Hatshepsut In Toronto
Serwis Nauka w Polsce The results of the latest researches made by Polish specialists of the Egyptologial-conservational mission in Hatshepsut's temple in Deir el-Bahari, Egypt, were presented on the October 2nd by Dr Zbigniew Szafrański, the...
- Seventy Years Of Polish Archaeology
Egyptian Gazette (the story on this URL has now expired) It was not just the unveiling of the bust of Professor Kazimierz Michalowski, the founder of the Polish Centre for Archaeology in Cairo and the pioneer of Egyptology in Poland, on the grounds of...
- Polish Activities Upstream
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/818/he2.htm "One of the most important achievements during the Nubia Salvage Operations under the auspices of UNESCO in the 1960s was unquestionably the discovery of an ancient cathedral in Faras which contained wall paintings...
- Poland Builds Archaeological Museum In Sudan
http://tinyurl.com/qpfwg (Naukawpolsce.pl)"Polish archeologists and conservationists working in Sudan will found a museum devoted to early christianity in Nubia in the town Banganarti, where they will display their finds in the area. The museum, scheduled...