2024-01-17T06:08:56+00:00
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/ The battles that have been taking place in Sudan for months between the army and the Rapid Support Forces have reached Meroe Island, which is included on the World Heritage List.
The Regional Network for Cultural Rights warned of the risk of damage to the antiquities of the Kingdom of Kush, which are more than 2,300 years old, and said that it “condemns the entry of the Rapid Support Forces for the second time into the Naqaa and Musawarat archaeological sites.” The archaeological site is located in the Nile River state in the north of the country.
The Human Rights Network explained that the Naqaa and Musawwarat sites are considered among the most important historical sites registered on the World Heritage List in Sudan, as they include statues, monuments, and shrines from the Meroitic era (350 BC to 350 AD).
It confirmed, citing “reliable sources, pictures and videos published on social media sites, that a military battle took place between the Sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces, which exposed these sites to vandalism, destruction, looting and theft.”
In 2011, UNESCO included the island of Meroe on its World Heritage List, and according to it, the archaeological sites on the island of Meroe are “semi-desert areas between the Nile River and the Atbara River, the stronghold of the Kingdom of Kush, which was a great power between the eighth and fourth centuries BC, and consists of the royal metropolis of the kings.” The Kushites at Meroe, near the Nile River, and near the religious sites of Naqa’a and Musawwarat al-Safar.