| The
Naga Temples |
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The
site of Naga is located about 30 km to the east of the Nile, at 130 km north of
Khartoum and it is one of the two centres that developed during the Meroitic
period.
In Naga, in a typical Saharan environment with rocks and sand, there is
the Apedemak temple (1st century a.D.): a wonderful building with
bas-relief decorations with the image of the god with the lion head, of the
Pharaoh and of the noblemen and several ritual images of the Apedemak god.
A few dozens of metres away there is a small and odd construction with
arches and columns, named "kiosk", in which we can notice the
Egyptian, the Roman and the Greek styles at the same time. Not far away another
temple dedicated to Amon with many statues of rams and beautiful temple
entrances decorated with bas-reliefs. |