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- 01Buhen's outer wall featured loopholes angled to allow bowmen to cover the moat floor without exposure — 3,800 years ago.
- 02The fortress enclosed an area of roughly 150 by 170 metres on the west bank of the Nile at the Second Cataract.
- 03When the Aswan High Dam was built in the 1960s, Buhen was submerged beneath Lake Nasser, permanently.