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, where Burckhardt and Cailliaud digging them before, and they
found nothing there, and after them came Lepsuis(6, who on 28
January in 1844 by discover the site between Saqadi and Genna
and Arkell(7)registered the sites around Jebel Abu Sheifa, Either
Crawford(8), studied the Mesolithic era site in Damer.

The archaeological survey, which done by the archaeologist
Fritz Hintze , was more inclusive from his predecessors, where he
studied and documented more than eight archaeological sites on the
road and described in his studies(9) on the territory of Butana and
from its important sites : zidab, Aliab ,Jebel Abu Sheifa , Mutmi
, Gebel Dayiqa ,Umm Ali , El Maroqa and Gadu . Hintze pointed
in his final report to map include about 16 necropolis lies between
zeidab and Matmur and recorded about 21 burial pit or individual
graves in the area mentioned above, as well as a collection of stone
blocks suffered destruction referred in his report to the probability
that it is Temple or a quarry South of Matmur(10), and in the area
between Matmur and Meroe recorded 27 settlement sites along
the Bank of the Nile, and noted that the closest site dating to the
Neolithic locate near Gebel El Qerri in the territory of Butana.

In the period of 9-11 September 1992 , visited the area both
Dr. Salah Mohamed Ahmed and Dr. Patrice Lenoble , on a trip
organized by the National institute of archaeology and museums
and the archaeological French unity, and as a result ,they prepared
report contained some important and pressing recommendations
like the need of exploration and study of archaeological areas
and save it because of construction road Meroe- Atbara as Nubia
salvage project after construction of the High Dam in Egypt and
sank archaeological sites located behind the dam(11).

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