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Excavations at the Nubian royal town of Kerma: 1975–91

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles Bonnet
Charles Bonnet*
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Mission Archéologique de l'Université de Genève au Soudan, 17 chemin du Bornalet, 1242 Satigny, Switzerland
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Kerma is an ancient city on the Nile in Middle Nubia, long known and the subject of renewed recent exploration. Its position, at the southern limit of Egyptian control, sets it strategically on the routes to the African interior. Its environment in the arid desert results in remarkable preservation of organic remains.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 611 - 625
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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