Amara West was a town created to oversee the occupied region of Upper Nubia between 1300 and 1000BC, now in modern Sudan. Research fieldwork by the British Museum (2008-2019) has provided the basis for a range of interdisciplinary research, based on architectural, artefactual, environmental, ethnographic and materials analyses. The project thus aims to provide new insights into ancient lived experience, with particular emphases on cultural entanglement, community vs state agency and techniques of production.