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59 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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
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
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 · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Moya is an archaeological site in the southern Gezira Plain, Sudan, approximately 250 km (150 miles) south southeast of Khartoum.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Rectangular eastern counterpart to Semna West across the 500 m Semna gorge, built to close the eastern channel and form a fortified river gateway with coupled gate signals.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
village and burial ground about 25 miles (40 km) downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Ghaba is a Neolithic cemetery mound and African archaeological site located in Central Sudan in the Shendi region of the Nile Valley.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Karanog (Meroitic: Nalote) was a Kushite town in Lower Nubia on the west bank of the Nile (near Qasr Ibrim).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Sahaba (Arabic: جَبَل ٱلصَّحَابَة, romanized: Jabal Aṣ-Ṣaḥābah, lit. 'Mountain of the Companions'; also Site 117) is a prehistoric cemetery site in the Nile Valley (now submerged in Lake…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Fortress
Abu Nafisa fort is a ruin located on the left bank of the Nile, in Khartoum Province (Sudan). It was built by the rulers of Alwa.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Faras Cathedral was a cathedral in the Lower Nubian city of Faras. It was the original seat of the Diocese of Faras.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
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
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 · Pyramid
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 · 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–.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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 · Archaeological wonder
Korti or Kurti (Arabic: كورتي) is a town in northern-central Sudan. In the Meroitic period, the city appeared as Cadetum, Cadata or Coetum in Roman sources.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Jebel Dosha is a sandstone promontory right beside the Nile, on the western river bank between Soleb and Sedeinga in Northern State in Sudan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Almorada (Arabic: الموردة / transliterated: Almo rada) is an ancient district in Omdurman city, Khartoum State, Sudan. Almorada neighborhood is one of the most prestigious districts in the Eastern part of Omdurman city.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Batn-El-Hajar or Belly of Stones is a reach of approximately 160 km in length stretching from the Dal Cataract of the Nile downriver to the now under Lake Nubia submerged Second Cataract in present-day Sudan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Bant (Arabic: بانت / transliterated: Ba‛ant) is an affluent district in Omdurman city, Khartoum State, Sudan. south-western part of the ancient city of Omdurman.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kawa, known as Gematon ("Aten is perceived") in ancient Egyptian texts and as Patigga or Patinga during Greco-Roman times, is a town and archaeological site in Sudan, located between the third and…
