Shalfak

Shalfak in hieroglyphs

Waf-Chastiu
Wʾf-ḫ3s.wt

Shalfak (originally Waf-Chastiu, "subduing the foreign lands") is an Ancient Egyptian fortress once built up on the western shore of the Second Cataract of the Nile River on what is now an island in Lake Nubia in the north of Sudan.

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