Karanog
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karanog-240-15985221
title:
Karanog
text:
Karanog was a Kushite town in Lower Nubia on the west bank of the Nile. It was probably a provincial capital under its own peshto (governor) in the second and third centuries AD. It was excavated between 1907 and 1910 by David Randall-MacIver and Leonard Woolley of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Karanog was occupied throughout the Meroitic period from the third century BC. By the second century AD, it was of strategic significance on Kush's northern frontier with Rome, facing Egyptian Ma
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Archaeological site
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karanog
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2024-03-24T12:52:08Z
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