Lamu Fort, built c. 1813–1820 of coral rag and lime mortar, later served as a prison (1910–1984) under colonial and early post-independence rule, before transfer to the National Museums of Kenya—an emblem of layered Swahili coastal history.#LamuFort #SwahiliArchitecture #UNESCOWorldHeritage

We’re back again! #HeritageFromAbove. Can you guess this #Heritage site? Clue: It’s thought to have been a place of Mother Goddess worship. Drop your answers in the comments, and as usual good luck! #heritagefromabove #archaeology #googleearth #quiz

Hidden in Sudan’s desert, the Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es-Sufra is a vast, maze-like Meroitic monument. Graffiti-filled walls, linked to the Lion Temple of Apedemak and its hafir, reveal a ritual landscape still shrouded in mystery. #Ancienthistory #Kingdomofkush #Archaeology #Sudan #Meroe

Explore the project’s Arches Demo Database in our latest newsletter (Issue 9), available on our website (also downloadable as a pdf). maeasam.org/latest-issue/

In the 16th and 17th centuries, this fortress city was the residence of Emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded by a 900-metre defensive wall, it holds palaces, churches, monasteries, and remarkable buildings that blend Hindu and Arab influences. Do you know where we are?

📣 MAHSA & MAEASaM host CAA-UK 25! Last week we welcomed a record number of delegates to Cambridge for the CAA-UK conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology. A huge thank you to our conference contributors, delegates, and organising team!

The MAEASaM Senegal team This mission focuses on sand tumuli located in northwestern Senegal (Saint-Louis Region), central Senegal (Diourbel Region), and the central-southern area (Kaffrine Region). Here are some images of the team in the field.

Nestled in the Shashe-Limpopo area, Mmamagwa was a significant satellite site of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom. Today, Mmamagwa is part of UNESCO Tentative List site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape spanning Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. #UNESCO #BotswanaSouthAfricaZimbabwe #Mapungubwe

Happy Friday, it’s time for #HeritageFromAbove Do you know where we are today? Wait until the end of the clip for more clues and as always good luck! Answer in the comments below. #HeritageQuiz #Archaeology #GoogleEarth #wherearewe

In Nakuru, Kenya, heartbreak built a fortress. Lord Egerton Castle, 52 rooms of marble and oak, finished in 1954 but never lived in by the princess it was built for. A national monument since 1996, open to all since 2005, just 14 km from Nakuru. #Kenyaheritage #LordEgertonCastle

It is Friday, another new destination! Think you can guess where we’re heading this week? Hint: Regarded as the oldest complete fort in sub-Saharan Africa Drop your answers in the comments, and Good luck! #Heritagefromabove Credit: Erik Cleves Kristensen Licence: [Creative Commons Attribution 2.0]

Want to learn more about Arches? Attend a workshop at #CAAUK2025 in Cambridge on Dec 9 at 11:30 GMT! The workshop will include a presentation on Arches Lingo by Phil Carlisle of Historic England, along with demos of two Arches implementations: @mahsa-project.bsky.social & @maeasamproject.bsky.social

The MAESaM team has arrived in beautiful Zanzibar! Grateful to Hon. Aboud Juma, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Heritage, for the warm welcome. We also had a productive meeting with him and Bibi Kei Abdalla, Acting Director of Antiquities and Museum. #collaborations #zanzibar

We welcomed Omar Madime from Eduardo Mondlane University to the Southern African Hub at UP. He explored our resource models, Arches database, and remote sensing work, and shared valuable insights on Mozambique’s heritage system. Great to have him on board! #SouthernAfrica #Training #Mozambique

Another Friday, another mystery destination! Think you can guess where we’re heading this week? Watch the video closely — the clue is hidden inside! Hint: The site characterised by extensive dry stone terraces Drop your answers in the comments below and as always Good luck! #Heritagefromabove

Celebrating GIS Day and the power of geospatial tech in protecting shared heritage. Next week, the MAEASaM Project hands over a GIS database prototype to Zanzibar’s Department of Museums—an exciting step for local heritage management and long-term preservation. #GISDay #MAEASaM #Zanzibar

Once a quiet desert, El Kurru was the royal burial ground of Kushite kings and queens whose power later reached Egypt, forming the 25th Dynasty. From here came rulers who revived traditions, restored temples, and shaped Nile Valley history — a story of identity, memory, and enduring legacy. #Sudan

New article from the MAEASaM Team! The Perils of Endangerment explores threats to Africa’s archaeological heritage—including sites with no visible remains—and what this means for preservation and mapping. Read free: doi.org/10.32028/978... #archaeology #openaccess #MAEASaMproject #Africanheritage

It is Friday, another #heritagefromabove quiz. Think you can guess where we’re heading this week? Drop your answers in the comments below and as always good luck! #unesco #archaeology #áfrica #icomos

Le caractère stratégique de l’île de Gorée lui valut une vocation défensive. Les Néerlandais y construisirent deux forts, une batterie principale, des remparts modestes, une redoute, la « batterie de l’Ouest » et plusieurs petits bastions. #Africanheritage #Archaeology #AfricanArchaeology #Geography

Another Friday, another mystery destination! Think you can guess where we’re heading this week? Watch the video closely — the clue is hidden inside! Drop your answers in the comments below and as always Good luck! #heritagefromabove #googleearth #africanheritage #quiz

In collaboration with IFAN Ch. A. Diop, the Museum of African Civilizations has been presenting an exhibition dedicated to William Ponty's notebooks since October 16. These notebooks, meticulously handwritten by students between 1933 and 1949, address a wide variety of sociocultural themes. #Senegal

It’s Friday! It’s time for Heritage Above! Do you know where we are? Clue: Oral tradition connects this fortified palace on Pemba island to a Prince nicknamed Mkama Ndume. Any idea? Share your answers in the comments! #NationalMuseumofTanzania #Heritagefromabove #Africanheritage

In Kondoa, Tanzania, over 150 rock art sites across 2,300 km² depict hunting, music, animals, and daily life, tracing over 2,000 years of change from hunter-gatherers to agro-pastoralists. Many shelters still hold ritual meaning for local communities. #Nationalmuseumoftanzania #Archaeology #Rockart

Another Friday, another quiz. Our destination today is at high altitude. Hint: It is the final resting place of an Italian Duke. Do you know the answer? please write it in the comments below. Good Luck! #Heritage #GeneralKnowledge #MuseumsofKenya #Quiz

600-year-old Yongle Tongbao coin found on Manda Island Minted in China under Emperor Yongle (1403–1425), made of copper + silver. Proof of Chinese trade in Africa long before Europeans arrived. Yongle built Beijing’s Forbidden City and sent Zheng He’s fleets to explore the seas. #Archaeology #Kenya

It’s Friday! It’s time for Heritage from Above! Do you know where we are? Clue: This building is a part of a bigger World Heritage site that contains more famous and well preserved Temples. Share your answers in the comments below and as usual good luck! #Heritagefromabove #Africa #Quiz

Gereza/Kilwa Fort on Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980. Once a hub for Arab, Swahili, Omani, and Portuguese trade and culture, it was used by Omani Arabs in the 18th century for contraband and the slave trade. #NationalMuseumofTanzania #Heritage #Unesco #Africa

It’s Friday! It’s time for Heritage Above! Do you know where we are? Clue: This mysterious site is distinguished by its spectacular sand-built funerary monuments, erected between 400 and 1500 AD. Any idea? Share your answers in the comments! #Heritagefromabove #UNESCO #Quiz #Traditionalknowledge

The MAEASaM team is in Dakar, Senegal for the 9th AfriGEO Symposium! Represented by Dr. Pamela Ochungo, Nicolas Sagna & Lamine Badji, we’re sharing how geospatial tools help protect Africa’s endangered archaeological sites & monuments. #AfriGEO2025 #MAEASaM #Geospatial #Dakar #Senegal

Fort Bullen in the Gambia River is built by the British in 1826. Its role as a witness to the Atlantic process led to its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2003 as part of the Kunta Kinteh Island and Associated Sites. #UNESCO #Africanheritage #ICOMOS #Forts #Senegambia #IFAN

It’s time for #HeritageFromAbove Do you know where we are today? Hint: Its ruins were superimposed by a Makurian defensive fort (1250-1340 AD), a monastery of St. George in which the Nubian King Solomon was buried. Send your answers in the comments below and as usual good luck! #Quiz

Beyond access. Beyond data. Beyond participation. Join the Swedigarch Inspirational Lecture with our MAEASaM Project Manager on Power, Participation & Digital Heritage. For more Information please follow the link below: swedigarch.se/index.php/ev...

World Heritage Sites #DidYouKnow? #Africa’s First #WHS: Gorée Island (Senegal), inscribed in 1978. Africa’s Largest WHS: Botswana’s Okavango Delta spans over 20,000 km². Africa’s Smallest WHS: Kunta Kinteh Island (The Gambia) is tiny at 0.3 km² #MAEASaM #Africaheritage #Culturaltreasures #Heritage

It’s time for #HeritageFromAbove Do you know where we are today? This fortified historic town is perched on a plateau in the eastern part of the country. Its walls, built between the 13th and 16th centuries, enclose a sacred Muslim city Do you know where we are? Answer in the comments below

Are you interested in remote sensing and geospatial analyses in the context of African heritage and its future monitoring? If so, MAEASaM project has a new position! Applications are now open until 17 October 2025 To apply : www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Around the confluence of the Limpopo and the Motloutse rivers, sits the Mmamagwa complex. It was once part of the royal dwellings of Leopard’s Kopje Dynasty rulers – the forerunner of the Mapungubwe Empire.

It’s that time for #HeritageFromAbove Do you know where we are today? This is a national monument that was renovated in the 1970s and is linked to the nation's independence movement. Do you know where we are? Answer in the comments below and as always good luck!

Designed by Gerard Moerdijk and commissioned in 1937, the Merensky Library at the University of Pretoria drew inspiration from Great Zimbabwe. The clearest example of this influence is the replicas of the stone eagle sculptures found at #GreatZimbabwe. #AfricanHeritage #CulturalHeritage#archaeology

It's time for Heritage from above! Can you guess the location of this historic site? Hint: It’s one of the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlements in East Africa. Drop your guesses below #AfricanHeritage #UNESCO #HeritageFromAbove

The #MAEASaM team, together with participants from Lamu, visited Manda and Takwa Ruins on Manda Island. They demonstrated how to: Take coordinates using GPS, collect site data with KoboToolbox, and fly drones to capture aerial imagery of the ruins. Heritage meets technology in #Lamu!

Day 1 of training in Lamu, Kenya! 🌍 Dr. Pamela Ochungo & Angela Kabiru led sessions on using **Google Earth Pro** for detecting and monitoring archaeological sites, plus digitising legacy data. An inspiring start to the week-long heritage documentation programme! #MAEASaM #Heritage #Lamu

It’s time for #HeritageFromAbove This site is listed with another on the World Heritage Tentative list and provides some of the richest evidence for exchange items travelling along the Indian Ocean exchange network during the mid-first millennium AD. Answer where we are in the comments below

*CAA UK 2025 Call for Papers* For more details visit the website: uk.caa-international.org/2025/09/01/c...

Last week, the MAEASaM team from @universityofpretoria with postgraduate students from the Archaeology department did a deep dive into the project’s Arches Demo database. It was super exciting to meet with all of the students on the day! #Archesdatabase #Demo #Archaeology#Mapping #Africanheritage

It’s Friday… which means it’s time for #HeritageFromAbove! Can you guess where we’re headed today? Drop your answers in the comments! #HeritageFromAbove #Quiz #SatelliteImagery #GoogleEarth

The Senegal River was once a vital gateway into the heart of the country, starting from Saint-Louis, a former colonial trading post and Atlantic port. Along its banks, river stops became bustling hubs of transport, supply, and exchange: gum arabic, peanuts, and gold.

It’s time for #HeritageFromAbove! Can you guess where we’re headed today? Hint: Perched on a hill with sweeping views of the city, this site became famous after a French navigator stayed here while recovering from illness during his voyage in 1824. Drop your answers in the comments!

Last month, the IFAN's Théodore Monod Museum collection was enriched with a new piece: Soundioulou Sissoko's kora. This instrument, listed as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, constitutes an exceptional and precious musical legacy for future generations.

It’s Friday… time for #HeritageFromAbove! Do you know where we are today? Remember to answer in the comments, and as always, good luck! #HeritageFromAbove #africanheritage #satelliteimagery #quiz