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Places tagged “buhen”

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🇸🇩 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.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Buhen Fortress — Great Walled Town

Old Kingdom precursors; Middle Kingdom–New Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian

Southernmost bastion of Egyptian 12th Dynasty canal road, first founded as Old Kingdom copper smelting settlement (2500 BCE) then rebuilt by Senusret I and massively expanded by Senusret III as…