Naqa
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).
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Jan 20, 2025 11:08 PM
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History
Naqa is an ancient city located approximately 170 km northeast of Khartoum in modern-day Sudan. Naqa was part of the Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805635
16.2695085, 33.2746437
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Nagaa archaeological site (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Nubian Lion Temple at Naqa located at Naqa (unspecified date range)
- Temple 200 at Naga located at Naqa (AD 1 - AD 99)
settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 82 inset Naqa
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Naqa
N.B. Millet, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Naqa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/805635> [accessed: 17 June 2025]
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