Jebel Moya

burial ground · 2000 AD – 2099 AD

Jebel Moya is an archaeological site located in the southern part of the Gezira Plain in Sudan. The 25-acre site was the locus of the largest-known pastoralist necropolis in Africa, with more than 3,000 burials dating between 5000 BCE and 500 CE. Sir Henry Wellcome first excavated the site from 1911 to 1914.

Coordinates

13.50000, 33.33333

Also known as

Jabal Mayyah (en), Jabal Mayyah (en)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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