Wad ben Naga, also known as Wad Ban Naqa or Wad Naga, is an ancient town in the Kushitic Kingdom in present-day Sudan. The village is located on the eastern bank of the Nile, about 80 kilometers upstream of Meroë and about 40 km southwest of Shendi. The site remains largely unexplored.
The earliest known building on the site is a very large, two-story brick palace built by Queen Amanishakheto in the first century AD. South of the palace is a circular building of unknown function, whose walls are still up to 5 m high. New excavations at the site began in 2009 under the direction of the National Museum of the Czech Republic.
Nearby, a temple of Isis has been destroyed, and there are remains of several other unexplored temples. A small temple with columns featuring the god Bes carved on them might have functioned as a divine birth house (mammisi). This temple was probably built by Natakamani and Amanitore in the first century AD.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
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