Publications and mass media releases

Kurcz M., Drzewiecki M. 2022. Living on the remains of a medieval capital. Intermingled past and present at Soba. Sudan and Nubia 26: 212-224 (DOI 10.32028/9781803274096-212-224).

 

Then-Obłuska J., Dussubieux L. 2023. Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan. Archaeometry (https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12878).

 

Drzewiecki M., Ciesielska J., Kurcz M., Dudek A., Mohammed N. & Suliman Y. A. B. 2023. Soba Expedition: Preliminary Fieldwork Report (2022–2023). Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne  (https://doi.org/10.31261/SEIA.2023.23.01.01).

 

Then-Obłuska J., Dussubieux L. 2023. Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia. Archaeometry, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12863

 

Drzewiecki M. 2022. Developing a new approach to research in Soba, [in:] H. Paner, A. Obłuski, M. El-Tayeb (eds), From Faras to Soba. 60 years of Sudanese–Polish cooperation in saving the heritage of Sudan. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, pp. 396-407.

 

Drzewiecki M., Ryndziewicz R., Michalik T., Ciesielska J., Czyżewska-Zalewska E., Ryś A., Bebel-Nowak A., Kurcz M., Rączkowski W. & Żuk L. 2022. Soba Expedition: The preliminary report on the season of fieldwork conducted in 2021-2022. Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne, 1-59. https://doi.org/10.31261/SEIA.2022.22.01.01

 

Drzewiecki M., Michalik T. 2021. The beginnings of the Alwan capital of Soba in light of new archaeological evidence. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 30/2, 419-438 doi: 10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam30.2.09.

 

Drzewiecki M., Ryndziewicz R., Ciesielska J., Kurcz M., Michalik T., & Czyżewska-Zalewska E. 2021. The spatial organisation of Soba: A medieval capital on the Blue Nile. Antiquity, 1-8. doi:10.15184/aqy.2021.158

 

 

 

Drzewiecki M., Kurcz M., Ciesielska J., Michalik T., Czyżewska-Zalewska E., Kiersnowski K. & Ryndziewicz R. 2021. Interdisciplinary Research into the Legacy of the Medieval Metropolis of Soba in a Modern Khartoum Suburb. African Archaeological Review 38, 597–623. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09459-1

 

 

 

Ryndziewicz R., Drzewiecki M., Banaszek Ł., Herbich T. & Kiersnowski K. 2021. Survey of Soba (Sudan). Non-Invasive Approach to Study the Urban Landscape of Medieval Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa. ArcheoSciences 45/1, 111-114 (DOI : 10.4000/archeosciences.8880).

 

 

Drzewiecki M. 2021. Soba – stolica średniowiecznego królestwa nad Nilem Błękitnym [Soba – medieval capital on the Blue Nile]. Archeologia Żywa 2(80): 50-57.

 

 

Drzewiecki M., Ryndziewicz R., Ciesielska J.A., Michalik T., Kurcz M., Czyżewska-Zalewska E. & Adam R.A. 2020. New fieldwork at Soba East (2019-2020 season). Sudan and Nubia 24: 233-246.

 

Kurcz M. 2020. Kilka uwag na temat pierwszego sezonu badawczego w Soba (Sudan) [Some Remarks on the First Research Season in Soba (Sudan)]. Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne 59: 151-172.

 

Banaszek Ł. 2020. Mapping Sudan’s Lost City of Soba. In Survey & Recording Roundup 2019-20. Edinburgh: Historic Environment Scotland, pp. 53-55.

 

Drzewiecki M., Ryndziewicz R., Michalik T., Ciesielska J.A., Czyżewska-Zalewska E., Kurcz M. & Hassan M.M.A.M. 2020. Soba Expedition. Preliminary report on the season of fieldwork conducted in 2019-2020. Khartoum (doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12023022.v2).

 

Drzewiecki M., Ciesielska J. & Michalik T. 2020. Soba Expedition. Preliminary report on the archaeological excavation before the construction of the storage house (doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.11981328.v3), Khartoum.

 

 

Drzewiecki M., Ryndziewicz R. 2019. Developing a New Approach to Research at Soba, the Capital of the Medieval Kingdom of Alwa. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 16, 1–24. (doi.org/10.1007/s11759-019-09370-x).

 

 

Drzewiecki M., Cedro A., Ryndziewicz R. & Selma Khogli Ali Ahmed 2018. Expedition to Hosh el-Kab, Abu Nafisa, and Umm Marrahi forts. Preliminary report from the second season of fieldwork conducted from November 13th to December 8th, 2018 with an appendix on an aerial survey of Soba East on 12th and 13th December 2018 (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26111.66724/1), Omdurman.

 

 

Drzewiecki M., Cedro A. Rączkowski W. & Ryndziewicz R. 2018. Expedition to Hosh el-Kab, Abu Nafisa, and Umm Marrahi forts. Preliminary report from the first season of fieldwork conducted from January 9th to 25th, 2018 with an appendix on a trial geophysical survey in Soba East conducted on January 26th, 2018 (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30734.25921), Omdurman.

 

 

MEDIA RELEASE:

Archeologia Żywa, March 2023

 

Interview for ‘Gazeta Uniwersytecka’, April 2022

 

During the field research on February 20, 2022, we were visited by Sudani24

 

DubaiTV made the footage of our research on the 18th of January 2022

 

Al Mashhadal Sudani wrote about our research, 29.12.2021

 

Polish Press Agency, 27.12.2021

 

Interview with Tomasz Michalik, 26.05.2021 (video file included)

 

Interview with Mariusz Drzewiecki in Radio ‘Jedynka’, 1.06.2020 (audio file included)

 

Interview with Maciej Kurcz in ‘Gazeta Uniwersytecka UŚ’, April 2020

 

Historic Environment Scotland, 27.02.2020

 

 

University of Warsaw, 26.02.2020

 

 

Radio ‘Dwójka’, 26.02.2020 (audio file included)

 

 

Polish Press Agency, 25.02.2020

 

 

Virtual Poland, 25.02.2020 (video file included)

 

 

Polish Press Agency, 5.11.2019