Аннотация:The Nubian archaeological and anthropological expedition of the Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of Lomonosov Moscow State University works in North Sudan since 2017. The expedition's work provided at the Deraheib site, located at the headstream of Wadi al-Allaqi, in the northern part of the Nubian desert (Cen1ral Atbai) in the Republic of Sudan. From 2017 to 2022 The Nubian expedition excavated the Northern Fortress at the settlement of Deraheib and the Southern Necropolis. Ongoing excavations in the Southern Necropolis have revealed Muslim burials (25 out of 31 investigated burials) and burials that are associated with the population that lived on the territory of Atbai in the Late Antique-Early Medieval period, known from classical sources as Blemmyes. The following studies were carried out craniological analysis (only adult skulls were used for it), fixation of non-metric traits on skulls and postcranial skeleton, odontolological traits, osteometric study, the program of fixation stressmarkers and pathological conditions.A wide range of methodological approaches makes it possible not only to study the morphological appearance of the population of Derakheyb, but to assess the health level of the researched population,the presence of infectious diseases, civilian traumas or combat injuries, and to assess the level of environmental stress on the study group. This will provide important data on the Medieval population of Northem Sudan.