El-KurruLegend The royal cemetery of Kush, between the third and fourth cataracts, in use from about 860 to 650 BC, and you can watch a civilisation change its mind about death in the layout of it. The earliest graves are tumuli, round mounds... Open it on the map · Read the story
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 marked by... Open it on the map · Read the story
Old DongolaLegend For a thousand years, from the fourth century to the fourteenth, this was the capital of Makuria, a Christian Nubian kingdom on the Nile that held off the Arab expansion by treaty and outlasted a great many states that get more... Open it on the map · Read the story
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