🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Kulubnarti
Kulubnarti ("Kulb island") is a 1 mile (1.6 km) long island in northern Sudan. Located on the Nile, around 100 miles (160 km) south of the Egyptian border, it is part of the village of Kulb.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Kageras
Kageras is a late medieval era fort in Sudan. Located in Upper Nubia, it lies on the eastern side of the Nile, about halfway between the third and second cataract.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Clayton Priory Archaeological Complex
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Clayton Priory Archaeological Complex in River Nile State, Sudan is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Island of Meroe — Archaeological Sites
Kushite Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite Meroitic (Egyptianizing Nubian)
Island of Meroe is the UNESCO 1332 heartland between Nile–Atbara–Blue Nile (not true island) with 3 Kushite sacred complexes: City of Meroe (pyramids North/South cemeteries, Amun Temple), Musawwarat…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kurgan Field Pyramid 108 — Sudan Region 12
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Kurgan Field Pyramid 108 — Sudan Region 12 in Sudan Region 12, Sudan is a Bronze Age pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Cave Sanctuary Africa 88 — Sudan Region 4
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Cave Sanctuary Africa 88 — Sudan Region 4 in Sudan Region 4, Sudan is a Iron Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Musawwarat es-Sufra – Lion Temple Complex
Kushite (3rd c BCE – 4th c CE; Lion Temple c. 300 BCE) · Kushite (Meroitic, King Arnekhamani)
Vast Kushite labyrinth (180×150 m Great Enclosure with 55 columns) and Lion Temple of Apedemak with vivid reliefs of king and lion-god, possibly elephant training ground; Hintze ex...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Hamadab
Hamadab is a ruined Kushite city located in central Sudan. It was founded around the 3rd century BC and remained inhabited until the 4th century AD.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Basa, Sudan
Basa (variation: Jabal Basa) is a village in Sudan. It lies 250 kilometres (160 mi) northeast of Khartoum in Butana, upstream of Wadi Hawa, near Meroë and the Nile.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Kumma (Nubia)
Kumma or Semna East is an archaeological site in Sudan. Established in the mid-12th Dynasty of Egypt, it served as a fortress of ancient Egypt in Nubia.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Moya
Jebel Moya is an archaeological site in the southern Gezira Plain, Sudan, approximately 250 km (150 miles) south southeast of Khartoum.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Hawar (Wadi Howar) – Yellow Nile
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 · Ancient city
Old Dongola
Medieval Christian–Islamic Nubia (500–1317 CE; peak 800–12th c.) · Makuria (Christian Nubia) / Islamic
Old Dongola on Nile opposite Letti is Makuria Christian Nubia's capital 500–1317 CE, 45 ha walled town with colonnaded citadel, palace of Ioannes (11th c.) 28×18 m with frescoes, five churches…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Batn-El-Hajar
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 · Archaeological wonder
Zuma, Sudan
village and burial ground about 25 miles (40 km) downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Ghaba
Ghaba is a Neolithic cemetery mound and African archaeological site located in Central Sudan in the Shendi region of the Nile Valley.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Sahaba
Jebel Sahaba (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلصَّحَابَة, romanized: Jabal Aṣ-Ṣaḥābah, lit. 'Mountain of the Companions'; also Site 117) is a prehistoric cemetery site in the Nile Valley (now submerged in Lake…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Ain Farah
Ain Farah is an archaeological site in Darfur in western Sudan. It was at one time the capital of the last Tunjur ruler, Shau Dorshid. It comprises large-scale area of stone and brick walls.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Buhen Fortress
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1950–1070 BCE; fort peak 1860 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier of Nubia (Wawat)
Second Cataract fortress Buhen — Sesostris III's 5-m bastioned walls now 40 m under Nasser.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Semna and Kumma Fortresses
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1900–1070 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Twin customs forts Semna–Kumma bracketing Second Cataract with Sesostris III's negro-ship decree.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Askut Island Fortress
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 · Archaeological wonder
Korti
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.
