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Temple complexes in Sudan matching “River Nile State, Butana” · Mysteria

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Temple complexes in Sudan matching “River Nile State, Butana”

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“River Nile State, Butana”Temple complexes 🇸🇩 Sudan Clear all

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Musawwarat es-Sufra — Great Enclosure (Butana Steppe, Sudan)

Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Meroitic)

Enigmatic Meroitic 3rd-century BCE–1st-century CE sandstone temple complex 25 km from Nile in Butana steppe, 180 km NE of Khartoum and 20 km north of Naqa.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Naqa — Temple of Apedemak and Meroitic Platform Complex

Meroitic (early to late Meroitic) · Kushite (Meroitic)

Meroitic royal city and temple town 50 km east of Nile, famed for co-built Temple of Apedemak (Natakamani & Amanitore, 1st century CE) with twin pylons covered in lion-god reliefs, Roman kiosk and…