Jebel BarkalLegend A flat-topped mesa 104 metres high standing beside the Nile 400 km north of Khartoum, and sacred for something like three thousand years running. The Kerma culture venerated it first. Thutmose III took it around 1450 BC and... Open it on the map · Read the story
Meroë and the pyramids of KushLegend Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt and almost nobody goes. Meroë stood on the east bank of the Nile as the capital of the Kingdom of Kush from about 590 BC until Kush collapsed in the fourth century AD, and the site is... Open it on the map · Read the story
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