Tombos.On the Island of Tombos, near Kerma, are granite quarries and one statue unfinished.
Argo.On the Island of Argo (Arkaw) are ruins of a temple and of two granite statues lying on the ground (about 24 feet long, including pedestal), of Sebekhotep III, of the Thirteenth Dynasty, or else, more probably, of the Napata period.
Karman.Near Argo, on the right bank at Karman are the ruins of a large town, and two large mud-brick tombs (B.N. 493, and L.), called Dafufa and Karman.
Six or seven miles south of New Dongola, on the right bank at a place named Kawa, is a delicate little Egyptian temple, date unknown, in good preservation. (Discovered and partially excavated by Colonel Hon. J. Colborne, 1885.)
Khandak marks the site of an ancient Egyptian town of which traces may be seen in the citadel.
South of Khandak are traces of Christian or older sites at Firgi and Khalewa on the west bank (Greek inscriptions have come from the latter), and on the east bank at Amentogo, Arab Hag (inscription from obelisk set up in Napata (?) by Piankhi) and a few miles east of Meganda, the last two in the Latte.
Old Dongola.Old Dongola, now almost deserted, was the capital of the Christian kingdom of Dongola in the sixth century.
NAGAA: ROMAN BUILDING IN THE DESERT—SHOWING THE TRANSITION FROM EGYPTIAN TO ROMAN STYLE.
