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This chapter describes an analysis of temples in Sudan undertaken in order to test the results obtained from the monuments of ancient Egypt. Data were obtained from high-resolution Google Earth images, covering a vast area of the country (although not all of it), and, in those sectors where such images were not available, from good quality maps yielded by the specialized literature. The idea was to carry out a significant test of existing theories with a completely independent set of temples not only from the geographical point of view but also because most of them belong to an independent culture, the Kingdom of Kush, heavily influenced by Egyptian schemes and traditions. The Sudanese data are variegated and must be treated with caution.
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This work is partially financed under the framework of the projects P310793 “Arqueoastronomía” of the IAC and AYA2011-26759 “Orientatio ad Sidera III” of the Spanish MINECO.
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Belmonte, J.A. (2015). Kingdom of Kush. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_153
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