Medieval Documents Recovered at Sudan’s Old Dongola - Archaeology Magazine

Medieval Documents Recovered at Sudan’s Old Dongola - Archaeology Magazine

King Qashqash order WARSAW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that a medieval document has been recovered at a large residential structure at the site of Old Dongola in Sudan by a team of researchers from the University of Warsaw. The text, written in Arabic on paper, is an order issued by King Qashqash, a ruler thought by some to be a legendary figure known only from mention in a nineteenth-century work. The building where the document was found…