Of Kings and Horses: Two New Horse Skeletons from the Royal Cemetery at el-Kurru, Sudan

Abstract

This article presents the zooarchaeological evidence from two horse burials at the royal cemetery of el-Kurru, Sudan. The skeletons, whose survival after excavation was unknown, were recently rediscovered in storage in the Sudan National Museum. The article outlines the archaeological context of these specimens, their importance for research on equids in the ancient Nile valley and the first results of their zooarchaeological analysis.

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): ai

Title: Archaeology International

Publisher: UCL Press (UK )

ISSN (Electronic): 2048-4194

Publication date (Electronic): 30 December 2020

Volume: 23

Issue: 1

Pages: 122-137

Affiliations

¹UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK

²Alumna UCL, UK

Author notes

*Correspondence: c.naeser@ 123456ucl.ac.uk

Article

DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2020.10

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2020, Claudia Näser and Giulia Mazzetti

License:

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Page count

Figures: 6, Tables: 1, References: 41, Pages: 17

Categories

Subject: Research Articles and Updates