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African Stud. Rev. Vol. ( 40 ) ( 2016 ) : 75 - 89

    Bagrawiya – Meroe road to Atbara

       “the archaeological road in Middle Nile”

                                           By

                          DR. zakareya abd Elmeged(*)
Abstract

      The road of Bagrawiya - Meroe – Atbara is one of the
important roads that locate near the pyramids of Meroe in Sudan,
and the road locate in the Babiuda desert and it is a region- with a
continental climate characterized by desert creep , water scarcity
, high summer temperature and coldness of winter- with nature
need to overcome and accommodation . The road connects the
city of Atbara by Meroe in along 262k.m, where the sector (A)
is the first sector in the road. The road consists of four parts: the
bridge connecting between the city of Damer and Umm Alttuyur,
sectors (A) and the two sectors (B, C). The road layers consists
of high debris, where the valleys, where total of debris reached
to 1.126.000m3. The cutting in hills and rough mountains reached
to 300000m3. The road has three foundations, the first is support
foundation with average width 12.25m and thickness 25centimeter,
the second is broken stone foundation with width 8m and thickness
20centimeter-rarely used in the roads in Sudan- and the last is
asphalt layer with width 7m and thickness 5centimeter. With
installations and residential areas.

( * ) Ass. Prof History Department of, Institute of African Research and Studies,
    Cairo University.

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