Kerma
Good to know
- Best time to go
- November to February, the mildest season in Sudan's north
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Site of one of Africa's earliest urban civilizations, Kerma flourished on the Nile a thousand years before the Napatan kings. Its massive mud-brick deffufa temple still rises above the plain, and an excellent site museum displays the famous granite statues of Kushite pharaohs.