Isn’t this brilliant?
Naga is an ancient city in modern-day Sudan. Only
accessible via sand tracks, it sits about fifty kilometres east of the Nile and
is a three-hour drive from Khartoum. It is one of the largest historic sites in
the country and contains the ruins of an ancient city that was once one of the
centres of the Kingdom of Meroë. Naga is believed to have been a trading station
and a significant link between the Mediterranean and Africa. The site has two
notable temples – one devoted to the Egyptian deity Amun and the other to the
Nubian lion god Apedemak, which has a Roman kiosk nearby. The site is at the
foot of the Jebel Naga mountain, situated near a wadi [a desert valley] with an
artesian well nearby to which Bedouin herders bring their flocks to drink.
Apart from a small watch house and a temporary archaeologists’ building, the
area appears completely unspoiled.
The museum building is designed by David Chipperfield
Architects, I mean who else could come up with something like this? Sympathetic
doesn’t even begin to describe it.
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