Key samples of the petroglyphs in the Sabu hills

Abstract EN

Sabu is located in the area of the third waterfall, known as the Kajbar catarat.

Sabu is a small village at the bottom of the third waterfall, which is about 2 km east of Kajbar and 60 km north of the city of Karma.

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As for the site of the ancient inscriptions known as the Sebu inscriptions, they are about three rocky hills separated from each other by small watercourses that run in an east-west direction, and, respectively, from north to south each of Khor (Sabu -n- Ferki Erki), Khor (Esmakul) and Khor ( Core).And the hills separate it from the Nile by the land of the agricultural cliffs and the dirt road known as the Mahas - Halfa Road.

The importance of the study comes from the fact that the Sabu area is very rich in petroglyphs in relation to the rocks on the Nile cataracts.

The study documents the engraved paintings in a systematic way through the descriptive analytical approach.

The methods of this approach were applied in field work to document the inscriptions of the region by specifying the coordinates of the site and then drawing the large paintings with a limited and clear drawing scale.

Small inscriptions and photography were transferred directly from the surfaces of the rock by lip with pens and papers designated for that .

The study concluded the importance of protecting and preserving this site, and the study also recommends the necessity of providing the necessary capabilities to preserve the site of rock inscriptions in Sabu, as it is threatened by new development projects, as well as threats of random prospecting for minerals, which has spread very quickly in the area.