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Sudan

Capital: Khartoum

  • Khartoum sits where the White Nile, from Lake Victoria, meets the Blue Nile, from Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and they flow on as the Nile.
  • The Meroë pyramids are more than 200 royal tombs built by the Kingdom of Kush between roughly 780 BC and 350 AD.
  • The Western Deffufa at Kerma is a mud-brick temple from the Kerma culture, which flourished from about 2500 to 1500 BC.
  • The National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum opened in 1971 and holds two Egyptian temples moved from Buhen and Semna when Lake Nasser was flooded.

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