This article is about the river basin. For other uses, see Kerma (disambiguation).
The Kerma Basin is a fertile low-lying area just below the Third Cataract of the Nile in Northern State, Sudan. Extending over a distance of about 60 km it is a flood plain in the Dongola Reach creating the largest section of arable land between Aswan and the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. At maximum extent some 70,000 acres (283 km2) can be inundated by the annual Nile flood, but a more regular year sees only about half that. This has led to a high population density in history that has long made the Kerma Basin one of the central portions of Nubia. The ancient city of Kerma was in the basin. During that period the Nile ran in channels spaced across the basin floor,[1] increasing the amount of arable land and promoting the emergence of developed societies like the Kingdom of Kerma.[2]
^Map of ancient Nile channels in the Kerma Basin
^The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology; 2013; ISBN 9780199569885; p.754.
The KermaBasin is a fertile low-lying area just below the Third Cataract of the Nile in Northern State, Sudan. Extending over a distance of about 60...
Northern Dongola Reach contains cultivable basins on the eastern side of the Nile valley floor such as the KermaBasin, a large fertile flood plain traversed...
was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, the Kerma culture, which lasted from around 2500 BC until its conquest by the New...
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries...
the longest inhabited. Early human civilizations, such as Ancient Egypt, Kerma, Punt, and the Tichitt culture emerged in North, East and West Africa during...
of the 3rd millennium BC to the early 2nd millennium BC in the Minusinsk Basin on the middle and upper Yenisei. It was formed from the local Neolithic...
dynasty to form the Old Kingdom of Egypt in 2686 BC: 63 The Kingdom of Kerma emerged around this time to become the dominant force in Nubia, controlling...
A hafir, or haffir, is an artificially constructed water catchment basin with a circular earthen wall and diameters of between 70-250 m and heights of...
by AkzoNobel for application on cars, planes and yachts. The natives of Kerma (c. 2500 BCE – c. 1500 BCE) developed techniques for architectural inlays...
significant number of large copper objects unearthed within the Carpathian Basin, he suggested that the previous threefold division of the Prehistoric Age...
Lower Nubia, followed by the A-Group culture bearers of Lower Nubia, the Kerma and Kush populations in Upper Nubia, the Meroitic, X-Group and Christian...
the foundations of numerous workshops in the city of Kerma proving that as early as 2000 BC Kerma was a large urban capital. The watermill was first made...
The Kerma culture was an early civilization which flourished from around 2500 BC to about 1600 BC in Nubia, present day Sudan, centered at Kerma. It seems...
of the Nile valley who later formed the Kingdom of Kush, which included Kerma and Meroe and the medieval Christian kingdoms of Makuria, Nobatia, and Alodia...
neolithic culture that flourished in the second millennium BCE. From the Kerma culture (2500–1500 BCE), the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of...
Ghana, northern Nigeria, Mali) and Nile Valley (e.g., Ballana, Qustul, Kerma, Kush). Based on artifacts found in the tumuli from West Africa and Nubia...
is known from the Pan-grave people of Sudan and Egypt and also from the Kerma culture. Different types of stone tools were used. Fragments of Egyptian...
comparable results. Similar situation can be observed in Middle Bronze Age Kerma. Sulfide deposits frequently are a mix of different metal sulfides, such...
Retrieved 2019-09-13. Mallory, J.P. (2010). "Bronze Age languages of the Tarim Basin" (PDF). Expedition. 52 (3): 44–53. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-01-09...
Mongolia and the borders of neighbouring countries, such as the Dzungarian Basin of Xinjiang and eastern Kazakhstan. It immediately follows the Afanasievo...
Janeiro, in Brazil. Sudan dates its national identity to the Kingdom of Kerma, Kingdom of Kush and other ancient kingdoms that existed in its territory...
Ghana, northern Nigeria, Mali) and Nile Valley (e.g., Ballana, Qustul, Kerma, Kush). Based on artifacts found in the tumuli from West Africa and Nubia...
the Nile also aided the settlement of its valley as has been observed at Kerma. A similar process may have led to the development of the Garamantian civilization...
Egyptian Empire Akhetaten, Pi-Ramesses, Thebes Empire 1550–1069 BC Nubia Kerma Principalities 2500–15th century BC Libu Not specified Tribal chiefdoms...
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