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Kerma

Capital of the first Kingdom of Kush, one of the earliest cities in sub-Saharan Africa; the 18 m mud-brick Western Deffufa.

Dated events and their evidence

• 2,500 BCE mainstream
  founding/rise as capital of Kush source
• 1,500 BCE mainstream
  Egyptian New Kingdom conquest + decline source

Where

19.6008° N, 30.4097° E

Sources

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6594/
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Kush/

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