Issue is taken with the view offered in a 1992 ANTIQUITY paper of the later history of this Sudanese kingdom.

The end of Cold War Europe has led to a welcome surge of communication between archaeologists. Yet Antiquity is all too aware that only a tiny fraction of the books published from the former Soviet bloc ever reach our desk. As a journal committed to improving and extending international dialogue between archaeologists, we list and flag what we can, but especially with foreign language publications we are clearly presenting only the tip of the iceberg. Paul Barford has accordingly been invited to present a one-off survey of recent archaeological literature from Poland, to be followed in our March 1994 issue by a review article covering Polish books on the Roman period.