Kerma Museum
 The Kerma site museum | |
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| Established | 2008 |
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| Location | Archeological site of Kerma,  Sudan |
| Coordinates | 19°36′2.89″N 30°24′35.03″E / 19.6008028°N 30.4097306°E |
| Type | Archaeological collection |
| Website | kerma |
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The Kerma Museum is an archeological site museum located in front of the Western Deffufa on the archaeological site of
Islamic history
of the region.
Architecture
The building of the museum is inspired by the traditional Nubian vaulted roof.
Displays
The museum contains artefacts of the main periods of the Kerma culture: Prehistory, Kingdoms of Kerma, Napata and Meroë.
The highlight of the Kerma Museum are seven black granite statues uncovered in a ditch at the nearby site of Dukki Gel in 2003 by an archaeological team headed by Charles Bonnet. Deliberately broken,
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![Statues of various rulers of the late 25th Dynasty–early Napatan period: Tantamani, Taharqa (rear), Senkamanisken, again Tantamani (rear), Aspelta, Anlamani, again Senkamanisken. Kerma Museum.[3]](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Rulers_of_Kush%2C_Kerma_Museum.jpg/200px-Rulers_of_Kush%2C_Kerma_Museum.jpg)
Statues of various rulers of the lateNapatan period: Tantamani, Taharqa (rear), Senkamanisken, again Tantamani (rear), Aspelta, Anlamani, again Senkamanisken. Kerma Museum.[3] -
Pottery, Kerma Museum, Kerma, Sudan
![Statues of various rulers of the late 25th Dynasty–early Napatan period: Tantamani, Taharqa (rear), Senkamanisken, again Tantamani (rear), Aspelta, Anlamani, again Senkamanisken. Kerma Museum.[3]](/File:Rulers_of_Kush,_Kerma_Museum.jpg)
References
- ^ The finding of the statue cache in 2003
- ^ "Web site of the Kerma Museum". Archived from the original on 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2018-10-24.
- ^ Elshazly, Hesham. "Kerma and the royal cache".