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The project will investigate the human–environment relationship in ancient Nubia during the Meroitic (c. 300 BC – AD 350) and post-Meroitic (AD 350 – c. 700) periods, and the impact of environmental changes on human habitation, migration, subsistence, and physical health. Using bioarchaeological and stable isotope analysis, the project will aim to generate data that will enable us to determine to what extent environmental changes contributed to the collapse of the Kingdom of Meroe in the 4th century AD.

The project highlights the problem of overexploitation of the natural environment and the profound effects its changes could have on human populations, past and present.

The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 665778; National Science Centre, Poland, POLONEZ funding programme (ref. no. 2016/21/P/HS3/00893).