I have directed excavations at Jebel Barkal since 1986: from 1986-1997 for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and from 1999 to the present, for the National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums of the Sudan (NCAM). From 2013-2019, this project will be under new sponsorship (to be announced), and I will share the directorship with Al-Hassan Ahmed Mohammed of NCAM.

From 1974 to 1999, I was a member of the curatorial staff the Dept. of Egyptian, Nubian, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. Although trained in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and responsible for the collection Ancient Near Eastern Art, after 1978, I became increasingly interested in the MFA’s collection of archaeological material from Sudan, which had been brought back by the MFA’s expeditions to Kerma, Napata, and Meroe between 1913 and 1924, and which then… Show more From 1974 to 1999, I was a member of the curatorial staff the Dept. of Egyptian, Nubian, and Ancient Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston. Although trained in Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and responsible for the collection Ancient Near Eastern Art, after 1978, I became increasingly interested in the MFA’s collection of archaeological material from Sudan, which had been brought back by the MFA’s expeditions to Kerma, Napata, and Meroe between 1913 and 1924, and which then were largely in storage. From 1981-84, I formed a traveling exhibition of this material (Kush: Lost Kingdom of the Nile) with the aim of getting it ultimately on view at the MFA in its own permanent gallery, which finally opened in 1992. I subsequently organized or assisted with eight more exhibitions on ancient Sudanese or African themes. One of these, highlighting the ancient city of Kerma, Sudan, I organized as guest curator for the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC., which was on view there from 1996 to 2004. Show less