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New Kingdom Egyptian colonial town on an island in the Nile in northern Sudan, built in sandstone and mud-brick under Seti I around 1300 BCE during the early Nineteenth Dynasty. Amara West replaced Soleb as the regional administrative seat for Upper Nubia under the official title "Town of Per-Ramesses, Beloved of Amun," and remained continuously occupied until roughly 1050 BCE during the late Twentieth Dynasty collapse. The walled town included a temple dedicated to Amun, a residence for the Egyptian deputy of Kush, planned residential blocks for officials and craftsmen, and an exterior cemetery containing both Egyptian-style pyramid-tombs and indigenous Nubian tumulus burials. British Museum excavations directed by Neal Spencer between 2008 and 2016 documented gradual changes in the local Nile channel that contributed directly to the town's eventual abandonment. House interiors preserved unusually intact polychrome wall paintings, including ceiling decorations imitating draped textile canopies.
The river moved, and the colony was left stranded inside its own walls.