At the end of 2018 the Polish center of Mediterranean archaeology ,university of Warsaw applied for a research concession in Soba East, the field work at Soba conducted in 2019-2020 has provided a massive amount of data on the spatial organization of the capital city of the kingdom of Alwa, aimed to collecting information on the distribution of archaeological remains at Soba east.
Our research indicates that Soba is an object of memory and non-memory alike,  in particular among the representatives of elite groups "former traditional leader "and those belonging to well-established  inhabitants Mugarba Arab , we can talk about some sort of pride it's enough to mention that one of primary school is call Soba kingdom, briefly the reason for this pride is the fact that today Soba lies in a place of the former capital of the Nubian kingdom the heart of  entire country, the memory of the Soba past is reconstructed through the legend.

Preliminary results of research in Soba