On a continent that has long attracted western expeditions, a wave of young people are now exploring sites
late morning in Khartoum. Inside a low, dusty building in the centre of the Sudanese capital, there are crates of artefacts, a 7ft replica of a 2,000-year-old stone statue of a Nubian god, and students rushing through the corridors. Outside is noisy traffic, blinding sunlight and both branches of the Nile.
For decades, the popular image of archaeologists in Africa has been at odds with an increasingly diverse reality. Dr Ghalia Garelnabi, the acting director of Sudan’s national museum, said that when she was at university 30 years ago there were only three women studying archaeology, and now there were 20.
Advocates of greater involvement by African archaeologists on the continent argue that this would help a discipline that has become “detached from reality”. Dr Eglal el-Malik, the director of the conservation department of Sudan’s National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums, said she was grateful to foreign archaeologists who “never stopped coming even in our darkest times. This was a very big help for us. They truly helped Sudan in maintaining and sustaining our work, and helped build capacity for young archaeologists. We needed professionals. Now we have many.
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