🇸🇩 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
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 · 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 · Temple complex
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex
Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) · Kerma Culture
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex in Northern State, Kerma, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kerma Culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Eastern Outlier
New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) · Napatan
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Eastern Outlier in Northern State, Karima, Sudan is a New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Napatan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard
Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) · Kerma Culture
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard in Northern State, Kerma, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kerma Culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Wadi Halfa Temple of Buhen North Court
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Wadi Halfa Temple of Buhen North Court in Northern, Wadi Halfa, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroe North Pyramid Field N12 Annex — Southern Extension
Meroitic (300 BCE-350 CE) · Meroitic
Meroe North Pyramid Field N12 Annex — Southern Extension in River Nile, Meroe, Sudan is a Meroitic (300 BCE-350 CE) pyramid attributed to Meroitic.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kerma Western Deffufa Brick Massif
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kerma Western Deffufa Brick Massif in Northern, Kerma, Sudan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Jebel Moya Tumulus Field South Edge
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jebel Moya Tumulus Field South Edge in Sennar, Jebel Moya, Sudan is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Meroe North Pyramid N19 Chapel
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Meroe North Pyramid N19 Chapel in River Nile, Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Semna West Fortress (Middle Kingdom Nubian Frontier Fort)
Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom)
Massive L-shaped mudbrick fortress of 12th Dynasty Sesostris III (c.1878–1840 BCE), southernmost of four forts guarding the Semna Cataract narrows at the Egyptian-Nubian border (along with Kumma…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma — Western Deffufa (Capital of Kush, Nubia)
Kerma (2500–1500 BCE), Classic Kerma 1750–1500 BCE · Kerma Culture (Nubian Kush)
Monumental mudbrick temple-massif 19 m high (52x27 m base) forming religious heart of Kerma, capital of the 3000-year-old Kerma Culture (2500–1500 BCE), one of Africa's earliest urban civilizations…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sai Island
Kerma Classic to New Kingdom to Napatan (2500 BCE–750 BCE, plus later) · Kerma and Egyptian colonial (New Kingdom)
12 km Nubian Nile island with Kerma pyramids and New Kingdom pharaonic fortress (2500 BCE–Ottoman).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Mirgissa Fortress — Egyptian Middle Kingdom
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty–New Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian (fortified settlement)
Greatest of Middle Kingdom Nubian forts, originally named Iken, built by Senusret III at narrow Second Cataract gorge on west bank, comprising a massive outer fortress enclosing harbour and an inner…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Debeira — Pyramidal Tombs of the Nubian C-Group
C-Group, Classic Kerma, New Kingdom, Meroitic–Medieval · Nubian C-Group to Christian Nubian
Double cemetery across Nile at Debeira East (Sudan) and West, excavated by Scandinavian Joint Expedition and Adams (1961–64) before High Dam.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Dokki Gel — Sacred City of Kerma (Doukki Gel)
Kerma to New Kingdom (2000–1100 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian syncretic
Separate walled ceremonial city 400x200 m discovered 700 m north of Kerma's Western Deffufa, revealing sub-Saharan African architecture (oval huts, timber palisades and 20 round temples) alongside…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Uronarti Fortress — Island Fort of Senwosret III (Second Cataract)
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Dramatic triangular mudbrick island fortress (c.1850 BCE) perched on rocky islet midstream of the formerly turbulent Second Cataract, complementing Semna system.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Western Deffufa at Kerma
Classic Kerma (c.1750–1500 BCE, Kerma Moyen to Classique) · Kerma culture (Nubian, Classic Kerma)
Massive Classic Kerma mudbrick sacred mountain (c.1750–1500 BCE) in Kerma capital: 52×52 m base, 19 m high preserved with three-stage stairway on east, internal rooms with timber roofs, and ritual…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
El-Kurru Royal Pyramid Field — Napata
Napatan / 25th Dynasty, c.850-650 BCE (early Kushite) · Kushite (Napatan, 25th Dynasty)
El-Kurru ridge 13 km south of Jebel Barkal: tumuli and pyramids of early Kushite kings (Tumulus 1 → Pyramid Ku1 Piye).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Hillat el-Arab Cemetery
Late New Kingdom to early Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Kushite (Nubian, Napatan early, Egyptianised)
Napatan-period cemetery (1200–750 BCE, early Kush) 3 km south of Jebel Barkal near Karima, on low sandstone ridge.
🇸🇩 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 · Ancient city
Buhen Fortress Nubia Second Cataract
Middle Kingdom · 12th Dynasty Egyptian
Buhen Fortress Nubia Second Cataract at Nubia, Buhen, Sudan is a Middle Kingdom ancient city of the 12th Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c. 1850 BCE for great fortress 150 m with moat glacis.