Sabu is a village located in the

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of northern

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

approximately 600 kilometres northwest of

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. It is best known for the nearby

Sabu-Jaddi The Sabu-Jaddi rock art site in Sudan is a unique cluster of more than 1600 rock drawings from different historical periods expanding for more than 6000 years through different eras of Nubian people, Nubian civilization. however, exactly when th ...

site containing hundreds of

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-era rock-art panels depicting giraffes, New Kingdom ships, and Christian churches. The site has yet to be systematically studied by archaeologists and is currently threatened by the $705 million Kajbar Dam project, which scientists say will flood the site within six years. In October 2015

Rock Art sites were added to

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/Watch as one of 2016's 50 endangered monuments in 36 countries around the world to call the international attention to protect and promote these incredible heritage reservoirs. Little research has been done in these sites, The Mahas survey project of the

university of Khartoum The University of Khartoum (U of K) () is a public university located in Khartoum, Sudan. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independen ...

exposed some important information about the site located between ''Sabu'' and Jaddi.

External links

Sabu on Global Heritage Network (GHN)

Notes

Archaeological sites in Sudan {{Sudan-geo-stub