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  • Meroe

  • Meroe

    Meroe is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan. This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe.
    World Heritage Site
    Meroe
    by Fabrizio Demartis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Meroe
    by User LassiHU, GFDL or CC BY-SA 4.0-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Meroe
    by Lassi at Hungarian, CC BY-SA 2.5, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Meroe

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    2011

    city

    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Sudan

    River Nile

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    First Millennium BC

    Kingdom of Kush

    Kingdom of Kush

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    kushite Monuments

     

     

     

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