Soleb Temple
Soleb Temple is an archaeological site in Sudan. Soleb Temple is situated nearby to the village Wawa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soleb and Wawa.
Soleb
Village
Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soleb is an ancient town in Nubia, in present-day Sudan. The site is located north of the third cataract of the Nile, on the western side of the Nile. It was discovered and described by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1844. Soleb is situated 4½ km northwest of Soleb Temple.
Wawa
Village
Wawa is a town in northern Sudan near the Nile River, located at 20°26′N 30°21′E. The town sits directly across the Nile River from the ancient city of Soleb Pebble tools from the early Stone Age have been found in this area including an early hand axe dating roughly 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago… Wawa is situated 5 km north of Soleb Temple.
Soleb Temple
- Type: Archaeological site
- Also known as: “Soleb”
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.4364° or 20° 26′ 11″ northLongitude
30.33411° or 30° 20′ 3″ eastElevation
202 metres (663 feet)Open location code
7GGGC8PM+HJOpenStreetMap ID
way 255705250OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
11875023
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In Other Languages
“Soleb Temple” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اثار صلب”
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