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Zuma
Zuma
Zuma is a village and burial ground about 40 km downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan. The cemetery was visited in the last two hundred years several times, but there were only brief descriptions and no excavations. Zuma was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 as part of Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region.
Site Information
Country: Sudan
District: Northern State
Category: Tombs and Necropolises
Site History: First Millennium BC
Oldest Culture: Kingdom of Kush
Later Cultures: Kingdom of Kush
Site Features: kushite Monuments
World Heritage Site
Part of: Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
Date of Inscription: 2003
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