Wadi Muqaddam

Geography

Wadi Muqaddam is a dry water course some 320 km extending from beyond Omdurman north to the great bend of the Nile near Korti.[1] It gives its name to the geological Wadi Milk Formation. Delimiting the Bayuda Desert to the west it still flows during rainy seasons. Some scholars assume Wadi Muqaddam as a former channel of the White Nile.[2]^:274

Archaeology

Mesolithic pottery has been found in Wadi Muqaddam.[2]^:268 In the north of the wadi there is the archaeological site of Al-Meragh.

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References

Intisar Soghayroun, Elzein Soghayroun, Trade and Wadi Systems in Muslim Sudan, Kampala 2010, p.25.
D. Q. Fuller and L. Smith, The Prehistory of the Bayuda: New Evidence from the Wadi Muqaddam In: Kendall, T, (ed.) Nubian Studies 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society of Nubian Studies, August 21–26, 1998. (pp. 265-281). Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston.

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[1] Intisar Soghayroun, Elzein Soghayroun, Trade and Wadi Systems in Muslim Sudan, Kampala 2010, p.25.

[fs-2] D. Q. Fuller and L. Smith, The Prehistory of the Bayuda: New Evidence from the Wadi Muqaddam In: Kendall, T, (ed.) Nubian Studies 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society of Nubian Studies, August 21–26, 1998. (pp. 265-281). Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston.