Wadi Muqaddam is a dry water course some 320 km extending from beyond
Omdurman north to the great bend of the Nile near
Korti.
[Intisar Soghayroun, Elzein Soghayroun, Trade and Wadi Systems in Muslim Sudan, Kampala 2010, p.25.] It gives its name to the geological Wadi Milk Formation. Delimiting the
Bayuda Desert to the west, it still flows during rainy seasons. Some scholars assume
Wadi Muqaddam as a former channel of the
White Nile.
[D. Q. Fuller and L. Smith, The Prehistory of the Bayuda: New Evidence from the Wadi Muqaddam In: Kendall, T, (ed.) Nubian Studies 1998. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society of Nubian Studies, August 21–26, 1998. (pp. 265-281). Department of African-American Studies, Northeastern University, Boston.]
Archaeology
Mesolithic pottery and lithics (stone tools and their manufacturing debris) from the
Holocene and the Middle Stone Age have been found in
Wadi Muqaddam.
In the north of the wadi there is the archaeological site of
Al-Meragh.
