Batn-El-Hajar

Batn-El-Hajar or Belly of Stones is a

Lake Nubia submerged Second Cataract in present-day Sudan.^[1]

History

Batn-El-Hajar is a barren and granite-rich landscape limiting arable soil and, thus, sparsely inhabited. It was the traditional border between

A-Group^[2] and Meroitics^[3] archeological sites.^[4]

^ Geography of Nubia.
^ Kathryn A. Bard (ed.); Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt; Routledge 1999; pp.83-84.
^ William Y. Adams; Dynasties and Empires. The Southward Course of Empire. Meroitic Civilization of the Steppelands; in: Nubia: corridor to Africa; Princeton University Press; 1977.
^ D. N. Edwards and A. J. Mills; 'Pharaonic' Sites in the Batn el-Hajar - the 'Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia' Revisited; in: Sudan & Nubia, No 17, published by The Sudan Archaeological Research Society; 2013.