Last Friday, 18th March 2016, Polish archaeologists welcomed H.E. Ibrahim Ghandour, the Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to the University of Warsaw.
After a visit to the Faras Gallery in the National Museum of Warsaw, the Minister joined Polish specialists working in Sudan at a meeting in the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. The scientists represented Nubiologists associated with the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, the Institute iof Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of the Sciences, the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of the Sciences, the Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk and the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. The participants acquainted the Minister with the scope of Polish archaeological and conservation work ongoing for decades in Sudan and presented him with publications resulting from that work.
The meeting was co-organized by the PCMA and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Later in the day, the Minister held a lecture organized by the University PR office in the Brudziński Hall, entitled Political and Security Vision of the (Past, Present and Future) of Sudan.