Abstract
The site of Sayala was excavated by the Austrian mission to Egyptian Nubia in scope of the International Action of Saveguarding Nubian Monuments of UNESCO. Besides several archaeological publications an anthropological one concerning the C-Group and Pan Grave Culture was published by Strouhal and Jungwirth (1984).
After a delay caused by political and professional reasons, a second volume dealing with Late Roman-Early Byzantine Period has been currently prepared for print. in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, in English. It contains 12 chapters on the archaeological background, survey of preliminary anthropological reports, methodology, list of examined individuals, demographic analysis with vital statistics, craniometry, osteometry, cranioscopy and osteoscopy, analysis of infant and child skeletons, paleopathology, paleotherapy and dentition.
Main results and a few examples will be presented.