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    Gebel Adda (also Jebel Adda) was a mountain and archaeological site on the right bank of the Nubian Nile in what is now southern Egypt. The settlement...
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    territories, including Dongola. The last recorded king, probably residing in Gebel Adda, lived in the late 15th century. Makuria had finally disappeared by the...
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    Painting of Christ on the ceiling of the converted Temple of Abu Oda near Gebel Adda Nothing is known about the organization of the Nobatian army. Many of...
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    of people living outside the Meroitic state. A Meroitic stele found at Gebel Adda from around 300 AD, however, seems to mention a king bearing the Nubian...
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    and Darfur. In 1365 a civil war forced the Makurian court to flee to Gebel Adda in Lower Nubia, while Dongola was destroyed and left to the Arabs. Afterwards...
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  • language code daw, Philippines Daw, an important city, possibly modern Gebel Adda, in the medieval kingdom of Dotawo Daw, Mauritania Daw Mill, a mine in...
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    Mashkouda or Shekanda. The Mamluks defeated the Nubians in three battles at Gebel Adda, Meinarti and finally at the Battle of Dongola. David fled upstream the...
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    and Darfur. In 1365 a civil war forced the Makurian court to flee to Gebel Adda in Lower Nubia, while Dongola was destroyed and left to the Arabs. Afterwards...
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  • language was published posthumously in "The Meroitic Inscriptions from Gebel Adda", The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in...
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    Vincent W. J. (2020). "An Old Nubian Lunary with a Greek Addition from Gebel Adda". Le Muséon. 133 (1–2): 13–30. doi:10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287659. Means, Laurel...
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    Ibrim, while a comparable, but more fragmentary piece was discovered at Gebel Adda. However, this breastplate was made of reptile hide, possibly from a crocodile...
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    University of Cairo at Aniba. One campaign by the University of Alexandria at Gebel Adda. Eight excavation campaigns by the Antiquities Service on various sites...
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    court to move to Daw, which some modern scholars believed to be modern Gebel Adda, in 1364/65. Under the first etymology of the term "Dotawo" discussed...
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    National Museum of Sudan. Bishop Petros, Christian Nubia The Relief of Gebel Sheikh Suleiman probably shows the victory of an early Pharaoh, possibly...
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  • Abydos King List Achaemenes (satrap) Achaemenid coinage Achaemenid Empire Adda-danu Addaya Adder stone Adikhalamani Adolf Erman Adolphe Reinach Adze Adze-on-block...
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    fort, Kharga Oasis Qasr el-Zayyan fort, Kharga Oasis Castellum of Badia, Gebel Abu Dukhan, near Hurghada, Red Sea Abu Sha'ar Fort, Red Sea. Temple of Stones...
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