Kawa

Northern State · Sudan

Kawa, Sudan
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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An ancient Kushite temple town on the east bank of the Nile near Dongola, with a temple of Amun restored by the pharaoh Taharqa. Granite rams and inscribed stelae were recovered from the buried sanctuary.

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