🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Amara West
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1300–800 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Nubian (Kushite)
Viceregal capital of Egyptian Kush (1300–800 BCE), 200×200 m walled town with 300+ pyramid tombs.
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13 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Late Ottoman to Modern, British colonial · British-Egyptian Irrigation Service under Willcocks
1898-1902 British gravity dam (1950 m, 54 m) at First Cataract, culmination of 4600-year Nile hydraulic tradition from Sadd el-Kafara.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom to modern (4th Dyn–Aswan High Dam 1970) · Memphite–Fayum basin engineers; Islamic fellahin maintenance
Delta apex basin system 58 km NW Cairo: 22-km Bahr Shibin canal + 9 dykes forming 14 flood basins (18 km²).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Roman to Byzantine (130 CE – 650 CE) · Roman / Hadrianic
Northern Nile bay of Hadrian's Antinoopolis — 120 m quay at +0.5 m and tetrastyle gate.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
New Kingdom to Coptic (1500 BCE – 650 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Northern limestone quarry harbour of Akoris 1–2 m under Nile silt below 40 m cliffs — slipway 60 m with rope grooves and quarry chapel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Byzantine (2700 BCE – 700 CE) · Pharaonic / Roman Egyptian
Southern terrace Nile harbour of Akoris at Tihna — 50 m quay revetment and tomb forecourt quay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
British colonial (Anglo-Egyptian) · Anglo-Egyptian, French engineers
1902 610-m gravity masonry 180-sluice Low Dam north spur 6 km above High Dam, world's largest masonry then.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Pharaonic to Islamic (1870 BCE – 642 CE) · Pharaonic / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic
Trajanic canal harbour 500×300 m silted 2 m under Suez – lock gates at +2 m.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1300–800 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Nubian (Kushite)
Viceregal capital of Egyptian Kush (1300–800 BCE), 200×200 m walled town with 300+ pyramid tombs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
British-Egyptian Modern with Pharaonic quarry context · British-Egyptian engineers (Willcocks, Benetti) on Pharaonic Nile
South spillway 350 m south of Aswan Low Dam with 58 buttress sluices on granite outcrop.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Coptic (c.2500 BCE – 700 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Nile cliff quarry town at Tihna — second harbour terrace slipway 2 m under talus 10 m above floodplain, limestone quay for Nile stone barges.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kerma Ancien to Late (c.2500–1500 BCE; Napatan reuse 900 BCE) · Kerma culture (Nubian / Sudanese) – precursors to Kush/Napata/Meroe
2500 BCE Nubian capital with 19 m Deffufa temple and tumuli – first sub-Saharan city, excavated 1977–.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
New Kingdom to British (1470 BCE – 1902 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom with British Aswan regulation
Quarry slipway and basin 150 m to float 42 m Unfinished Obelisk and blocks to Nile.
