Author: Jakobielski, Stefan & Aleksandra Sulikowska-Belczowska. (eds).
Title: Faras. Katedra w piaskach pustyni. Szescdziesiat lat po odkryciu. / The cathedral in the desert sands. Sixty years after the discovery.
Description: Warszawa, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 2021. 478,[2] pp. Num. ills (chiefly col.). Orig. softcover (pictorial wrappers). Large 8vo. [ISBN: 9788371004681]. Bilingual edition: text in Polish and English. - An anniversary publication issued on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Polish archaeological mission in Faras, which in 1961 under the leadership of Professor Kazimierz Michalowski made the spectacular discovery of the Eastern Christian cathedral. The book contains, presented for the first time, photographic documentation of subsequent campaigns in Sudan and essays by leading Polish researchers who continued the work begun by the discoveries in Faras. - Faras was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater.

Keywords: Archaeology Africa Egypt Sudan Archeologie Afrika Egypte Soedan