The Library

The core of the Society's library is formed of the books and offprints from our first president, Sir Laurence Kirwan. Amongst its most useful assets is a full run of Kush, the journal of the Sudan Antiquities Service and many volumes of Sudan Notes and Records. The main library is housed in the Society's office in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum. It is available to members by prior appointment with the honorary secretary. The Society also maintains a branch library within the office of the Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan in the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums' premises in Khartoum.

For a full list of the publications held in the Society's LONDON Branch Library click here (excel file).

For a full list of the publications held in the Society's KHARTOUM Branch Library click here (excel file).

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The Archive

 

The Society’s archive is a rapidly expanding resource. It contains the original records from the Society’s survey and excavation projects, currently those at Gabati, in the Northern Dongola Reach, at Kawa, at Jebel Umm Rowag and between Amri and Kirbekan above the Fourth Cataract. The archives for Soba East and the Wadi Halfa to Kerma Railway are also included.
   The archive also contains a large number of photographs, both prints, negatives and transparencies, both in black and white and colour, belonging to W. Y Adams. J. A. Alexander, C. M. Daniels, Mr Moore, the RAF, I. E. S. Edwards, Laurence Kirwan, Rosalind Hawkes, Brian Haycock, Mr Gentle and Jean-Pierre Greenlaw, spanning the years from the 1930s until the 1980s. Many are an invaluable record of sites long since destroyed particularly those of sites in the region of Lake Nubia/Nasser and at Suakin. The archive also contains a large number of plans and elevations of houses at Suakin by Greenlaw, papers of Laurence Kirwan and others, maps, aerial photographs and satellite images.
   For a listing of the Society’s Archive, computerised to date (those in black type), click on the appropriate name:

  

Adams	Alexander	Bayuda	Bonner	Daniels	Edwards	Gabati
Gentle	Greenlaw	Hawkes	Haycock	Jebel Umm Rowag	Kirwan	Miscellaneous
Moore	NDRS	RAF	Soba	WHKRS

For the regulations governing the use of archive material, an order form and details of charges click here (doc file).