El-Detti
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El Detti is a village in the Northern Province of Sudan, on the right bank of the Nile between the Third and Fourth Cataracts. An Early Makurian cemetery is located there.[1]
In 1919, American archaeologist G.A. Reisner visited the site, excavated a few of the tombs, and drew a plan of the cemetery. The tumuli field was also recorded in 1992 during a survey carried out as part of a project of the Sudanese National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) and the Italian University of Cassino, which was headed by Irene Vincentelli. Since 2014, the research is conducted in the framework of the "Early Makuria Research Project", a cooperation between the NCAM and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw (PCMA UW). The Polish–Sudanese project is directed by Mahmoud el-Tayeb from the PCMA UW. The first season consisted of a survey and documentation work; regular excavations began in 2015.