Singa

Singa stands on the Blue Nile south of Sennar, in a river country watered by floods from the Ethiopian highlands. The riverbank preserves a much older human history: a fossil skull found here belongs to an early human who lived long before the rise of kingdoms along the Nile. From the sixteenth century the surrounding valley formed part of the lands associated with the Funj sultanate, whose capital lay downstream at Sennar.