Neal Spencer, British Museum
Work on site finished yesterday, with final recording, photography and then the logistics of getting all our equipment back by boat to the expedition house after sunset.
A last sunset over the ancient town
Some of our workmen, experienced in building mudbrick architecture on Ernetta island, constructed new walls along the ancient walls of house E13.7, to preserve the painted plaster surface from wind erosion over the coming months.
Ghazafi Mohamed and Hassan Nouri constructing protective walls in house E13.7
In the next few days we’ll be closing the house, moving objects to the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum and starting our journeys home….
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great work
Nice! Would like to see some pictures of the objects!!
Thanks for communicating the news.Please do it future too.