Tombos

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The main reason to stop in Tombos, about 5km north of Kerma, is to visit its archaeological site. It consists of a recumbent granite statue of a Black Pharaoh and, some 800m further north on the river bank, well-preserved hieroglyphic rock inscriptions.

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