Areika was a Kushite town in

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on the west bank of the

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near the Amada region. It was excavated between 1907 and 1910 by

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and Leonard Woolley of the

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. Richard Lobban, ''Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia'' (Scarecrow Press, 2004). Artifacts discovered here were found to be from the C-Group culture as well as Egyptian activity from the Middle Kingdom.

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