FARAS
Faras
Faras was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan, was flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater. Before this flooding, extensive archeological work was conducted by a Polish archeological team.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Faras
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