Punch card from the field-research project conducted by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan
- Document
- Unbekannt
- Berlin (Stadt)
- nach 1967
Egyptologist Fritz Hintze (1915–1993) led the Humboldt-Universität’s first field-research projects in Sudan. As the young GDR sought recognition under international law, relations with the north-east African Republic of Sudan, founded in 1956, were important to it at a foreign-policy level. It financed extensive excavations at the ancient sacred Cushitic site of Musawwarat es-Sufra and the reconstruction of the Lion or Apedemak Temple. State-of-the-art punch cards were used to arrange the collected archaeological data into a system. These historical records are today an important source for studies into Sudan archaeology and the history of science.