In conjunction with Vienna University Professor Bestock will be inaugurating a program of survey and excavation that they hope will clarify many aspects of the Middle Kingdom Egyptian involvement in Nubia.
Department of Egyptology and Assyriology
Date
March 8, 2012
Professor Laurel Bestock - New Brown Project in Sudan at the Site of Uronarti
Professor Laurel Bestock leaves for Sudan to begin a new Brown project at the site of Uronarti. Uronarti is a currently uninhabited island in the Nile in northern Sudan, where the 12th Dynasty Egyptian kings built one of a string of monumental fortresses.