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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Zuma Tumuli Alternative Name: Zouma TumuliCountry: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 0.314 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Meroe Nearest Village: Samareit
Latitude: 18.370233N Longitude: 31.740173E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Round Barrow(s) in Sudan
Vast burial field covered with small tumuli dating towards the end of the Meroitic culture.
Part of five Napatan archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, relating to the Napatan (900 to 270 BCE) and Meroitic (270 BCE to 350 CE) cultures, of the second kingdom of Kush in what is now Sudan. There are numerous, pyramids, tombs, tumuli and temples. Unesco World Heritages sites.
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