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Satellites reveal cosmic formations of Islamic tombs with domes similar to “galaxies”

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The Kassala region is considered one of the most mysterious, magical and unique regions, not only in Sudan, but in the world as well, due to the presence of many funerary structures, such as ancient stone mounds and Islamic shrines with distinctive domes, which were built over generations to represent different cultures.

The very remote location of these domes causes great difficulties for experts and archaeologists, which made their secrets remain mysterious to this day, but some scientists used a method dedicated to space science to study this region.
According to the research published in the scientific journal “PLOS One”, the scientists used a cosmological method to study the topographical distribution of thousands of wonderful Islamic tombs built in the Middle Ages in eastern Sudan.

In an attempt to shed light on the mystery of the strange funerary scene spread over a very wide area where about 10,000 monuments and tomb domes were erected in the Kassala region in eastern Sudan, a team of experts from the University of Naples-Laureate and the Sudanese National Authority for Antiquities and Museums used satellite images.

The monuments that were surveyed within the stone burial area include “relatively simple elevated structures, scattered throughout prehistoric times and African history”, in addition to the very distinctive Islamic domes that embody Islamic tombs and shrines scattered in some regions of the Arab world.

Despite the unique technique used, the experts encountered difficulties after collecting the data, as they tried to discover the significance behind the complex and unique patterns in the region.

“We faced a challenge in explaining why this funeral scene was created with no similar traditional archaeological data,” researcher Stefano Costanzo, a doctoral student in archeology at Naples Loriental University in Italy and lead author of the study, told Live Science. But we had a large enough data set to be able to assume that there were complex processes at the regional and local levels.”

The team decided to apply a model called the Neyman-Scott Cluster, developed with the aim of observing the spatial patterns of stars and galaxies, something the team believes has not been tried in archaeology before.

“The biggest advantage of this model lies in the fact that it can handle archaeological datasets but they consist of a very large number of elements,” the researcher said.

The modeling technique revealed that unidentified ‘original’ burials hosted subgroups of tombs, ‘seeming to be driven by the general sanctity of the site’.

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Accordingly, the monuments are set in a galaxy-like pattern, such as the Sun and the planets orbiting around it. “The local assemblies are most likely tribal and family cemeteries of the Beja people,” the team wrote, adding that further research would be needed to determine the exact locations of the cemeteries of the ‘Fathers’ and who were buried there.

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