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Barge pedestal on display in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin found in Wad ben Naga
Wad ben Naga (also Wad Ban Naqa or Wad Naga)[1] is the name of an ancient town of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë in present-day Sudan. The village lies on the eastern bank of the Nile, about 80 kilometers upstream of Meroë and about 40 km southwest of Shendi.
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Wad ben Naga (also WadBanNaqa or Wad Naga) is the name of an ancient town of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë in present-day Sudan. The village lies on...
Napata, the Amun temple at Meroe, the Amun Temples of Naqa and Amara, the Isis temple at Wad ben Naqa, and the Meroitic palace B1500 at Napata. The Temple...
good conditions” by Frédéric Cailliaud just a few years earlier. At WadbanNaqa, he leveled the pyramid N6 of the kandake Amanishakheto starting from...
Nubians of Kush built their own temples to Isis at sites as far south as WadbanNaqa, including one in their capital, Meroe. The most frequent temple rite...
of an elephant. Jean Vercoutter discovered this in a temple in Sudan, WadbanNaqa. In 1970, during the German expedition of Musawwarat es-Sufra at Sudan...
constructed at Meroë during her reign. The two rulers also built Amun temples at Naqa and Amara. The quantity of building that was completed during the middle...
good conditions" by Frédéric Cailliaud just a few years earlier. At WadbanNaqa, he leveled the pyramid N6 of the kandake Amanishakheto starting from...
the mother city of the other Ethiopians." Together, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Naqa, and Meroë formed the Island of Meroe. The town's importance gradually increased...
the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers...
Collections, The New York Public Library. "(still image) Aethiopen. Naga [Naqa]. Tempel a. Vorderseite des Pylons., (1849–1856)". The New York Public Library...
were two other major Meroitic cities in Butana, Musawwarat es-Sufra and Naqa. Today it is mainly inhabited by the Sudanese Arabs of Sudan, such as the...
inscriptions of a palace building found at WadbanNaqa, from a stela found at Qasr Ibrim, another stela from Naqa and her pyramid at Meroe (Beg. no. N6)...
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