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
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.
Necropolis
Soleb is also t ...
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
[Berry, L., and A. J. Whiteman. “The Nile in the Sudan.” ''The Geographical Journal'', vol. 134, no. 1, 1968, pp. 1–33. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/1792135. Accessed 23 Dec. 202]
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References
Populated places in Northern (state)
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