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246 places in the atlas, 36 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Meroe Ridge South — Meroe (56-30) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Meroe Temple B — Meroe (56-23) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Early Holocene to Late Antiquity (9500 BCE–500 CE) · Holocene Saharan pastoral / Nubian
1000-km Yellow Nile former tributary with 400 Holocene pastoral scatters 9500–2000 BCE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Quarry
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Middle Quarry in River Nile State, Sudan is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) quarry attributed to Harappan culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
New Kingdom Egyptian (1390 BCE) · Egyptian (Amenhotep III)
Soleb Temple — Amenhotep III Nubia Temple in Northern State, Sudan is a New Kingdom Egyptian (1390 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Egyptian (Amenhotep III).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Meroitic (300 BCE–300 CE Great Enclosure; Lion Temple 230 BCE Arnekhamani) · Meroitic (Arnekhamani, Amanitore) with elephant training centre
Musawwarat excavated by Hintze 1960–, Apedemak lion temple and elephant ramp.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Korti or Kurti (Arabic: كورتي) is a town in northern-central Sudan. In the Meroitic period, the city appeared as Cadetum, Cadata or Coetum in Roman sources.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Tepe Sialk Platform A in Meroe, Sudan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Amarna (Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten c.1365 BCE) New Kingdom Egyptian colony · Egyptian Amarna (Aten) colonial
Sesebi excavated by Fairman 1938, Aten talatat predecessor to Amarna 1365 BCE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Jebel Dosha is a sandstone promontory right beside the Nile, on the western river bank between Soleb and Sedeinga in Northern State in Sudan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Almorada (Arabic: الموردة / transliterated: Almo rada) is an ancient district in Omdurman city, Khartoum State, Sudan. Almorada neighborhood is one of the most prestigious districts in the Eastern part of Omdurman city.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Batn-El-Hajar or Belly of Stones is a reach of approximately 160 km in length stretching from the Dal Cataract of the Nile downriver to the now under Lake Nubia submerged Second Cataract in present-day Sudan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Bant (Arabic: بانت / transliterated: Ba‛ant) is an affluent district in Omdurman city, Khartoum State, Sudan. south-western part of the ancient city of Omdurman.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kawa, known as Gematon ("Aten is perceived") in ancient Egyptian texts and as Patigga or Patinga during Greco-Roman times, is a town and archaeological site in Sudan, located between the third and…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Al-Meragh is an archaeological site in Sudan. It is situated in the Wadi Muqaddam approximately 227 kilometres (141 mi) north of Omdurman in the Bayuda, an area that today is largely desert.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Middle Kingdom to X-Group (1860–500 BCE peak 1850 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Mid-Nile island kite-fort Askut guarding Second Cataract channel.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of Semna cluster, 1 km south of Semna West on desert plateau, square 70 m fort built by Senusret III controlling desert track that bypassed cataract, linked to Semna West by 500 m desert…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient village
Banganarti (Arabic: بنقنارتي Nobiin: Bángànarti (Island of the Locust) is a small village in Sudan, about halfway between the third and fourth cataract of the Nile.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient village
Kulb is a village on the Nile in northern Sudan. It has been inhabited since the time of the Christian kingdom of Makuria.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Old Kingdom · Kushite
Meroitic north cemetery at Meroe (Beg N 1–20) c.300 BCE–350 CE steep pyramids 6–20 m base, Beg N9 Tabirqo etc.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Fatimid to Mamluk (10th–15th c CE) · Beja–Islamic port
Aidhab — Red Sea Desert Port in Red Sea State, Sudan is a Fatimid to Mamluk (10th–15th c CE) ancient-city attributed to Beja–Islamic port.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Meroitic era · Ancient Egypt
ancient city from Nubia along the eastern bank of the Nile River in Northern Sudan
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Temple at archaeological site at Jebel Barkal in Northern State, Sudan
