Jebel Moya
Jebel Moya is an archaeological site in the southern Gezira Plain, Sudan, approximately 250 km south southeast of Khartoum. Dating between 5000 BCE-500 CE and roughly 104,000 m2 in area, the site is one of the largest pastoralist cemeteries in Africa with over 3,000 burials excavated thus far.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: archaeological site in Sudan
- Also known as: “Jabal Mayyah” and “Jabal Moya”
Jebel Moya
- Categories: archaeological site, mountain, and locality
- Location: Sennar, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
13.49693° or 13° 29′ 49″ northLongitude
33.31515° or 33° 18′ 55″ eastElevation
460 metres (1,509 feet)Open location code
7G5MF8W8+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 7730432087OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Jebel Moya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل موية”
- Arabic: “جبل ميّة”
- Chinese: “傑貝爾莫亞”
- Dutch: “Muya”
- German: “Muya”
- Hausa: “Jebell Moya”
- Ladin: “Muya”
- Russian: “Гебель-Моя”
- Spanish: “Jebel Moya”
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