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Ruins of Old Dongola

Ruins of Old Dongola
Located on the banks of the Nile in what is now northern Sudan, Old Dongola was the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria from the 6th to the 10th centuries. Archaeologists unearthed the ruins of the ancient city in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Old Dongola; Africa
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