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<< Text Pages >> Sanam Temple - Ancient Temple in Sudan

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Multi-periodSite Name: Sanam Temple Alternative Name: The Treasure
Country: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 0.231 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Meroe  Nearest Village: Marawi
Latitude: 18.481664N  Longitude: 31.818034E
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Ancient Temple in Sudan

Large temple measuring 41.5 Meters by 61.5 Meters, partially in residential site.

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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Where ancient gods and royalty walked by coldrum on Sunday, 03 June 2007
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Where ancient gods and royalty walked

For 3,000 years, a succession of African civilizations rose and fell along the Nile River in ancient Nubia, at one point expanding north to the Mediterranean Sea.

Relatively little is known about these peoples. While Egypt hosts up to 200 foreign archeological teams a year, Sudan until recently has averaged 10 to 12.

Among the pioneers is Krzysztof Grzymski, head of world cultures at the Royal Ontario Museum, and known to local villagers as simply "Chris."

For 25 years of annual field seasons, he has represented a friendly Canadian presence in a country known mostly for fundamentalist Islam, ties to Osama bin Laden and what the UN calls "the world's worst humanitarian crisis," the war in Darfur.

Grzymski knows a different Sudan. His work centres at Meroe (pronounced MARE-oh-way), capital of one of Africa's greatest ancient civilizations, the Kingdom of Kush. It is one of the country's key archeological showcases and one of its most photographed sites.

"This is the period that really interests me," Grzymski says, "from 750 BC to AD 350. "And halfway through this period, you have the incredible invention of their own writing, still largely undeciphered. It's a scholarly mystery."

On Saturday, as head of half the ROM's collections, Grzymski will be circulating among fellow dignitaries helping to open the Crystal wing.

Recently, he could be seen in his other role, driving three hours north from Khartoum over a desert highway to his dig.

First recorded by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Meroe served as capital of the most politically sophisticated empire seen to that point in sub-Saharan Africa.

To the right of the highway, along a sandy ridge, stand more than 40 royal pyramids – some with their tops lopped off by Italian tomb raider Giuseppe Ferlini in 1833, others recently restored by German architect Friedrich Hinkel.

"I don't like digging graves," Grzymski says. "That's where you find all those treasures, I know. But I have a not very archeological attitude that we should leave the dead alone."

Instead, he digs on the left of the highway, at Meroe's Royal City on the east bank of the Nile.

To the inexperienced eye, the site looks strewn with rubble. But through Grzymski's eyes, scattered boulders resolve into grand staircases and sacred sphinxes. Low-lying walls rise to become palaces and temples, decorated with murals and graced by tree-lined avenues.

Grzysmki points out the temple to the god Amun, and indoor royal baths outfitted with ceramic pipes and covered in glazed tiles of Mediterranean hues.

"I fortunately didn't find any gold yet," he says, happy not to be the target of thieves. Artefacts for his popular 1994 ROM exhibition The Gold of Meroe came from Ferlini's 1833 plunder, today housed in Munich and Berlin.

"What fascinates me is uncovering the daily life (of the city)," he says, "the jars, the cooking pots that somebody left in the kitchen and 3,000 years later we are finding them."

In 1992, under Grzymski's direction, the ROM opened North America's first permanent Nubian exhibition. It is due to reopen in early 2009 after renovations.

Recent threats to Nubian ruins have ignited wider interest. Construction has begun on Africa's largest hydroelectric project, a dam that by the end of next year is to submerge an area north of Meroe at the Nile's fourth cataract.

Priceless antiquities stand to be lost. Flood waters threaten the remains of entire cities. As a result, Africa's largest archeological rescue project is underway, drawing teams from Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, Hungary, Peru and the United States.

"It's bringing in a whole new crowd," Grzymski says. Parisian curators have consulted him on plans to open a Nubia Gallery at the Louvre

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