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Plantation Island Plantation Island This island, originally known as Kitchener’s Island, was deeded to British Field Marshal and Egyptian Consul General Kitchener by the British government in gratitude for his services in Sudan, specifically for his suppression of the Mahdi revolt. Egypt was still a British protectorate when he died in 1916, and the island reverted […]

Nubian Museum The new Nubian Museum lies southeast on a rocky slope overlooking part of ancient need to build a special museum house the Nubia was realized years before the High Darn in 1971. Excavations schemers around the  yielded such an abundance of diverse objects that no museum could allocate the space needed to house […]