Zuma
Visited in October 2019
At a glance
- Country
- Sudan
- Region
- —
- Population
- —
- Type
- Village and burial ground about 25 miles (40 km) downstream from Jebel
- Coordinates
- 18.41°N, 31.76°E
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Overview
Zuma (el-Zuma) is an archaeological site including a village and burial ground about 25 miles (40 km) downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan. It lies about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of El-Kurru, in the Napatan Region, on the right side of the Nile. The cemetery was visited several times by researchers in the last two hundred years, but there were only brief descriptions written, and no excavations. The tumuli field at el-Zuma has been known, erroneously, as the “El-Zuma Pyramids” since the first half of the 20th century.
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