Alaric Hall<p>Well this is cool <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> news! As one of the researchers, Artur Obluski, says on Twitter, 'Seems that gods of excavations favoured us in the very last season of ERC_Research <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Umma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Umma</span></a> grant . We found not only the stone blocks from walls and floor of a <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Napatan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Napatan</span></a> temple of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Amun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amun</span></a> of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/GemAton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GemAton</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Kawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kawa</span></a> but also enigmatic complex of chambers covered with wall paintings and inscriptions dated probably to around 1276 CE One of the paintings presents king David of Makuria in intimate and dynamic scene with <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/archangel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archangel</span></a> Michael and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Christ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christ</span></a> kissing the hand of the latter and probably begging for protection of the city of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Tungul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tungul</span></a> (Old Dongola) against the wrath of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Mamluks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mamluks</span></a> unique for <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> art The other painting shows <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/MotherOfGod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherOfGod</span></a> in a unique, uncommon way and as far as I'm concerned unknown in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/iconography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iconography</span></a> holding a book in one and a cross in other hand and dressed in kind of monochromatic greyish robe".</p><p><a href="https://pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2023/04/05/new-discoveries-in-old-dongola-protection-for-tungul-new-unique-wall-paintings-discovered-in-old-dongola-sudan/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2023/04/05/n</span><span class="invisible">ew-discoveries-in-old-dongola-protection-for-tungul-new-unique-wall-paintings-discovered-in-old-dongola-sudan/</span></a></p>