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We are pleased to welcome Raúl Sánchez Casado, who is ‘Ramón y Cajal’ postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ancient History at the University of Seville. His main field of research focuses on the study of the funerary cult in the Old Kingdom from an eminently social point of view, analyzing who the officiants of these cults were, what their socio-economic status was and what relationships of interdependence were established between these officiants and the patrons they served.

His main interest is to understand the impact that the establishment and management of the funerary cult had on the people who maintained it. Recent publications include “Two Remarkable Censing Scenes from the Tomb of Kaemneferet at Giza (G 8538)” (Chronique d’Ègypte, 2023), The overseer of linen (jmj-r sSrw) in the Old Kingdom, (Journal of Egyptian History 16, 2023 with Jonatan Ortiz), Priestly officiants in the Old Kingdom mortuary cult, (Monografías de Oriente Antiguo 3, Universidad de Alcalá 2022, edited with Antonio Morales), El servidor del ka en el Reino Antiguo: funciones y espacios de actuación (BAR Intemational Series, Oxford, 2020).

As for fieldwork in Egypt Raúl is Deputy director of Middle Kingdom Theban Project and epigrapher in the Qaw el-Kebir Expedition. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Project Invisible Networks: Patronage in Old Kingdom Funerary Cult, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Union.

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Morgan Moroney is an Egyptologist and art historian, currently serving as the Assistant Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, Brooklyn Museum.

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Tori L. Finalyson is a Doctoral Candidate of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Full bio forthcoming.

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Prehistoric Eastern Sudan: The Atbai Enclosure Burial phenomenon: The archaeology of Eastern Sudan, the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, is still in its infancy. The cultures of the region have yet to be formally described with the same resolution as the Nile Valley, and whole regions are proverbial blanks on the map from the perspective of archaeology. For prehistory, the archaeological corollary of the A-Group or Naqada is missing from the Atbai (the Fourth Millennium BCE).

Undertaking extensive remote sensing prospections across the region, we have identified a new and widespread funerary tradition across the desert, "Atbai Enclosure Burials". These are large communal burials for people and livestock, extending from the border of Eritrea to the deserts of Upper Egypt. This presentation will give an insight into the satellite remote sensing of desert environments, and elucidate how this burial type defines the prehistory of this under-studied region.

Julien Cooper is an Egyptologist, Nubiologist and archaeologist, with a focus on the archaeology of the Eastern Desert (Atbai) and the history of its nomadic peoples. He is the director of the 'Atbai Survey Project', a fieldwork program surveying the vast deserts between the Nile and the Red Sea. These surveys aim to shed new light on the varied heritage of this desert, from neolithic rock art to ancient Egyptian trade routes and medieval goldmines. Julien is recently a recipient of an ARC Future Fellowship "Rescuing Pharaoh’s Gold Mines: Archaeological conservation in Eastern Sudan". 

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