Doukki Gel, or Dukki Gel, was an ancient Nubian settlement. Dukki Gel was inhabited between 1800 BC to 400 AD and was occupied by a coalition of African rulers from the south around 1700 BC during the Classical

Kerma Kerma was the capital city of the Kerma culture, which was founded in present-day Sudan before 3500 BC. Kerma is one of the largest archaeological sites in ancient Nubia. It has produced decades of extensive excavations and research, including t ...

period, and later by

Ancient Egyptian Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

and Nubian officials during the new kingdom period. The settlement is located less than south of the city of

, and shows distinctive Sub Saharan influences architecturally distinct from Kerma with more rounded structures. During the Egyptian conquest in the new kingdom, the third pharaoh of the

18th Dynasty of Egypt The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. The Eighteenth Dynasty ...

Thutmose I Thutmose I (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis I, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; meaning "Thoth is born") was the third pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 18th Dynasty of History of Ancient Egypt, Egypt. He re ...

founded a new city neighbouring Dukki Gel just North of it.

Etymology

Doukki Gel means "red hill" in a Nubian dialect and was named by archaeologists.

Fortifications and castles

When the military commanders of

reached Dokki Gel in the early 15th century BC, they discovered the city. The architecture differed from the Egyptian models, and the Military Fortifications must have been awe inspiring to the Egyptian commanders and unseen in Egypt.SARS_SN23_Bonnet_Marchi.pdf

References

{{Sudan-stub Former populated places in Sudan Cities in ancient Egypt Nubian architecture