The W.Y. Adams Library
The core of the Society’s library is formed of the books and offprints once belonging to our first president, Sir Laurence Kirwan, and to our late Honorary President, Professor William Y. Adams. Amongst its most useful assets is a full run of Kush, the journal of the Sudan Antiquities Service, and many volumes of Sudan Notes and Records.
The main library is housed in the Society’s office in the Department of Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum in London. The Society also maintains a branch library within the office of the Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan in the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums’ premises in Khartoum.
The main library is available to members of the Society by prior appointment with the honorary secretary.
Tel +44 (0)20 7323 8500
SARS@britishmuseum.org
by Humphris, J. and T. Rehren, 2014
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by D. A. Welsby with contributions by I. Welsby Sjöström, Mahmoud Suleiman Bashiir and J. Joyce
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The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, London, 2011
168 pages (digital version), 6 tables, 47 figures, 173 colour and 19 b&w plates
… ISBN 978 1 901169 1 89
Begun in 1875 by the Egyptian khedive, Ismail Pasha, the railway played an important role during the Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884-5 and Kitchener’s Dongola Campaign in 1896. It was abandoned and cannibalised to build other railways in Sudan during the first decade of the 20th century. For much of its course it runs through the desert and in those areas the roadbed, the associated military installations and the innumerable construction camps are extremely well preserved.
This book is the result of a photographic survey of these installations together with the detailed archaeological surveys undertaken within them. A report on the artefacts, which includes personal equipment, ammunition, fragments of rolling stock, bottles, tins and ceramics, completes the volume.