Umm Ruweim

Umm Ruweim denotes two ruins in modern Sudan, which lie just south of the 4th Nile cataract at Wadi Abu Dom.

Here are two buildings of the late - to postmeroitischen time (about 300 AD) could be documented. The Umm Ruweim than one designated plant is about 50 × 50 meters tall and has a total of four goals, one in the middle of each side. On the inside of the outer wall, there are a series of rooms. Within this limit, there was a second similar system, but with only a single, easy passage to the east. In the center there was finally a single building. A second simpler system lies in the southeast about 400 meters away and is called Umm Ruweim 2. Today, it consists only of an enclosure, but originally it (though not of stone but of mud bricks ) had a similar internal buildings Umm Ruweim 1. The function of this building is not safe. Both a military function and the role as well attach station ( Hydreuma ) or caravanserais were discussed, but now discarded.

In the vicinity of the plants are small cemeteries that have been partially excavated.

As part of an ongoing since 2009 Surveys in the Wadi Abu Dom documented Angelika Lohwasser (University of Münster ) since 2011, the ruins of Umm Ruweim.