Soleb
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.Photo: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wawa.
Wawa
Hamlet
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 6 km southeast of Soleb.
Soleb
- Type: Village
- Description: town in Sudan
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.47235° or 20° 28′ 20″ northLongitude
30.31234° or 30° 18′ 44″ eastOpen location code
7GGGF8C6+WWOpenStreetMap ID
node 4187344105OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q1457914
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