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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient port
Middle Kingdom Nubian fortresses to Modern (1860 BCE–1964 CE) · Egyptian Middle Kingdom / Nubian / British colonial
Wadi Halfa is the submerged 1902–1964 port and fort at Second Cataract, predecessor to modern town now under Lake Nasser (moved 1964 UNESCO rescue).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
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.
