NeGaSh is an interdisciplinary project examining Negash as a living landscape shaped by history, memory and local community practices. Our work brings together archaeological documentation, ethnographic research and the study of cultural heritage. It is a project built on partnership and dialogue – one that places the knowledge and experience of the local community at the heart of the research process.

Negash is a place where history, memory and community meet.
The NeGaSh Project studies this landscape through an equal combination of archaeological and ethnographic research, focusing on how historical narratives, early settlement traces and everyday community life shape the identity of Negash today.
The project began within the Archaeo‑Oriental Studies (IDUB) programme and has since grown into an independent research initiative. In cooperation with Mekelle University, the Tigray Culture and Tourism Bureau and the Ethiopian Heritage Authority, we study Negash as a living landscape – one in which the past is not only preserved, but actively remembered, narrated and re‑created.
NeGaSh is built on partnership, dialogue and long‑term engagement. It is a project about people and place, about the ways history becomes part of everyday life, and about how local knowledge can guide researchers toward new understandings of the past.