Archaeological sites in Sudan

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Ain Farah, Aksha, Sudan, Al-Meragh, Amara, Nubia, Askut, Banganarti, Basa, Sudan, Cemetery 117, Dabenarti, El-Hobagi, El-Kurru, Gala Abu Ahmed, H.U.N.E., Hamadab, Hillat al-Arab, Jebel Barkal, Kageras, Kawa (Sudan), Khor Shingawi, Kulb, Kulubnarti, Kulubnarti church, Kulubnarti fort, Kumma (Nubia), Meinarti, Meroë, Mirgissa, Musawarat, Naqa, Nubian pyramids, Nuri, Old Dongola, Pyramids of Meroe (Begarawiyah), Sabu, Sudan, Sanam, Sudan, Semna (Nubia), Soleb, Tabo (Nubia), Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal, Tombos (Nubia), Umm Ruweim, Uronarti, Wad ban Naqa, Zuma, Sudan. Excerpt: Meroë (also spelled Meroe) (Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi; Arabic: and Meruwi, Ancient Greek: ¿e¿¿¿, Meròe) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site are a group of villages called Bagrawiyah. This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries. The Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë gave its name to the Island of Meroë, which was the modern region of Butana, a region bounded by the Nile (from the Atbarah River to Khartoum), the Atbarah, and the Blue Nile. The city of Meroë was on the edge of Butana and there were two other Meroitic cities in Butana, Musawwarat es-Sufra, and Naqa. The site of the city of Meroë is marked by more than two hundred pyramids in three groups, of which many are in ruins. They are identified as Nubian pyramids because of their distinctive size and proportions. Meroë was the southern capitol of the Napata/Meroitic Kingdom, that spanned the period c. 800 BC - c. 350 AD. According to partially deciphered Meroitic texts, the name of the city was Medewi or Bedewi (Török, 1998). Excavations revealed evidence of important, high ranking Kushite burials, from the Napata Period (c. 800 - c. 280 BC) in the vicinity of the settlement called the Western cemetery. The culture of Meroë developed from the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which originated in Kush. The importance of the town gradually increased from the beginning of the Meroitic Period, especially from the reign of Arrakkamani (c. 280 BC) when the royal burial ground was transferred to Meroë from Napata (Jebel Barkal). Relief of a ruler, a Candace of Meroë named Kandake Amanitore Near East in 200 BC, showing the Kingdom of Meroe and its neighbours.Rome's conquest of Egypt led to border skirmishes and incursions by Meroë beyond the Roman borders. In 23 BC the Roman governor of Egypt, Publius Petronius, to end the Meroitic raids, invaded Nubia in res