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Archaeological Description of the road :(12)
In the wake of this report ,the archaeological sites on the

road Meroe – Atbara (fig: 156) studied in detail and divide the
archaeological sites along the road according to its historical
periods and preparation of graphic survey, and take samples of the
remains of bones and pottery found within the site.

- the most parts of the road between Meroë and Atbara
Extending along the slopes of the first level of gravel up the flood
plain of the Nile. The site of the road selected to avoid the soft sand
and silt Nile flood and to be close to the accommodation by the
River, and probably for similar reasons we find these beds of gravel
as shelters and burials since prehistoric periods.
Prehistoric sites:

The excavation has recorded seven sites dating by the lower
Paleolithic until the third millennium BC. These sites are as follows:
1 - Site (SARS 113.3): it is a high hill with a Summit of some

flint pieces and a set of sherds dating by the third millennium
BC and spread between burials of the late Meroetic-Christian
period. The site overlooks the north end of the meroetic plain
on the mound Wadi Dain and Wadi Heish.
2 - Site (SARS 138,2), it is high mound overlook Wadi Gabati (fig:
162), and it have some sherds dated to the third millennium BC
and spread between the burials of the late meroetic -Christian
period.
3 - Site (SARS 138.3, 147.1): it is a Neolithic sites located in low
steppes of the South plain of the Wadi Gabati.
4 - Site (SARS 152.1): it is a site dated to the Neolithic on the
Rocky Ridge to the East of the Wadi.

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