el Kurru
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: N.B. Millet Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N.B. Millet Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 30, 2023 01:40 PM
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History
El-Kurru is the site of a necropolis used by Nubian royalty. Many of the royal tombs date to the Kushite period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805623
18.4089057, 31.7704612
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of El Kurru (1000 BC - 1 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- الكرو (el-Kurru: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
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- Pyramid K.1 at El-Kurru located at el Kurru (unspecified date range)
tomb, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 82 B3 el Kurru
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el Kurru. The site is enrolled as UNESCO World Heritage site as part of the "Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region" cultural landscape.
N.B. Millet, DARMC, Enrico Regazzoni, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'el Kurru: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805623> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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