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Kurgus
The joint SARS -British Museum project at Kurgus is investigating the mud-brick fort on the river bank, the cemetery and the Hagr el-Merwa. The Hagr el-Merwa is a white quartzite outcrop which dominates the right bank of the Nile 40 kilometres upstream of the Nile bend at Abu Hamed. Carved and painted on the Hagr are many inscriptions of the Egyptian New Kingdom including two boundary stelae of the pharaohs, Thutmose I and his grandson, Thutmose III. This was the southern limit of the Ancient Egyptian Empire on the Nile. Later the area was occupied in the Post-Meroitic and Medieval periods and the fort and cemetery are of that date.
Select bibliography
Davies, W. V. 2003. 'La frontičre méridionale de l'Empire: Les Égyptiens ā Kurgus', Bulletin de la Societé Franįaise d'Égyptologie 157, 23-37
Davies, W. V. 2005. 'Egypt and Nubia. Conflict with the Kingdom of Kush', in C. H. Roehrig (ed.) Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh. New Haven and London, 49-56.
Davies, W. V. and I. Welsby Sjöström 1998. 'New Fieldwork at Kurgus', Sudan & Nubia 2, 26-29.
Davies, W. V. and I. Welsby Sjöström 1998-2002. 'Kurgus 1998: A Preliminary Survey', Kush 18, 45-59.
Welsby Sjöström, I. 2001. 'Excavations at Kurgus: The 2000 Season Results', Sudan & Nubia 5, 59-63.
