Amal Attia Alla Gaber Abdalla

Biography

Amal is an archaeologist, with a specialism in stone tools and ceramic production in Ancient Sudan. She currently works in the Documentation Section for the Museums Department at the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums. Her role includes registration of fieldwork findings and working with the electronic database.

Amal also works with the University of Khartoum on a fieldwork project at the Elga-ab site in the Dongola Reach, Northern Sudan, working with artefacts from the pre-historic to Christian era.

At the British Museum
During the International Training Programme in 2015, Amal was based in the Department of Egypt and Sudan. Her UK Partner museum was the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford.

In 2015 each participant was asked to plan and propose a temporary exhibition based on the physical space and concept of the Asahi Shimbun Displays in Room 3 at the British Museum.  Amal’s exhibition project proposal was entitled The Potters’ Craft: Handmade Ceramics from Ancient Sudan.

Amal’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by Lady Keswick.