VIDEO: Archaeologist wraps up excavation in Tombos, Sudan in the Nile River Valley

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Purdue University bioarchaeologist Michele Buzon has finished another field season looking at immigration and colonization during the New Kingdom occupation of Nubia in about 1400 B.C. along the Nile River Valley. This is the third and final season Buzon and her team have excavated these ancient burial sites as part of a National Science Foundation grant.