Kawa, Sudan
Principle investigator
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Partner
- Sudan Archaeological Research Society
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The town at Kawa, on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan was founded by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten in the fourteenth century BC and was finally abandoned in the fourth century AD. It preserves a temple built by Tutankhamun and another constructed by the Kushite king Taharqo when he ruled Egypt in the early seventh century BC.
In conjunction with the Sudan Archaeological Research Society the British Museum team has excavated widely within the town, in domestic, religious and industrial quarters. Excavations are also underway in the adjacent Kushite cemetery where graves include several under substantial dressed stone pyramids.
Excavation at Kawa