Built Heritage Workshop in Zanzibar Drashti Nakrani • November 2026 East African heritage professionals learning to record the layered fabric of a town: from analogue notes to photogrammetric models. Scenes from Stone Town and the Maruhubi ruins recorded during the workshop. Photographs: Drashti Nakrani. From 10th to 14th April 2026, …
Bringing Old Maps to Life: How Georeferencing Connects Kenya’s Past and Present Exploring the intersection of technology and heritage preservation through the MAEASaM project Cindy Waweru and Keith Murangiri • March 2026 For the past year Cindy Waweru and Keith Murangiri, have been based at British Institute in Eastern …
Lamu: An Island of the Living and the Dead A journey through centuries-old landscapes that teach us the art of presence Angela Kabiru • January 2026 Our recent visit to Lamu brought together team members from the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the British Institute in Eastern Africa …
The MAEASaM project is delighted to have been awarded a grant by its funders Arcadia for a further five years from 30 June 2024, enabling us to build on all the work completed during Phase 1. Before we review Phase 1 and look ahead to Phase 2, a reminder of …
The MAEASaM project is dedicated to building capacity by training interns in various aspects of digitising heritage sites. This initiative aims to preserve invaluable archaeological data while equipping interns with essential skills in data management and digitisation. Here, Cheruiyot Victor Colson and Movin Kiprotich, two MAEASaM interns working at the …
Tohamy Abulgasim and Dana AlSalamin joined the MAEASaM project in January 2024 and December 2023 respectively and are based at the University of Cambridge. Here they give readers an insight into their work, part of which is using ‘legacy data’ to help map archaeological sites in Sudan. What is …
Since April 2023, an intense armed conflict has been waged in Sudan between two factions of the Sudanese military government, the military Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Fighting has been particularly severe around the capital, Khartoum, where most of the national museums and cultural …
Post by Dr Ezekia Mtetwa, Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Box 626, 751 26 Uppsala, Sweden. ezekia.mtetwa@arkeologi.uu.se Threats to archaeological and built heritage are multiple and can be more complex than usually imagined. In Africa, the well-known culprits include unmonitored urban expansion, large-scale agricultural intensification and irrigation …
World Maritime Day 2022 – 29 September https://www.un.org/en/observances/maritime-day Today is World Maritime Day! The theme in 2022 is ‘New technologies for greener shipping’ – international shipping transports more than 80 per cent of global trade, hence the need to support a green transition into a sustainable future. On this …
En cette Journée mondiale de l’accès à l’information, c’est en français que cet article est rédigé! https://www.unesco.org/fr/days/universal-access-information-day Cette année, la Conférence mondiale sur l’accès universel à l’information se tient à Tachkent en Ouzbékistan et a pour thème : « Intelligence artificielle, e-gouvernance et accès à l’information ». Cet événement est l’occasion de rappeler …