Masu binciken kayan tarihi sun gano gawarwakin wani haikalin da ya yi kusan shekaru 2,700, zuwa lokacin da wata masarauta mai suna Kush ta yi mulki a wani yanki mai fadi, ciki har da kasar Sudan da Masar da wasu sassan Gabas ta Tsakiya a yanzu.
An gano gawar haikalin a wani kagara na tsohon Dongola, wurin da ke tsakanin cataracts na uku da na hudu na kogin Nilu a Sudan ta zamani.
An yi wa wasu daga cikin tubalan dutsen haikali ado da siffofi da kuma rubutun rubutu. Wani bincike na zane-zane da rubutun ya nuna cewa sun kasance wani ɓangare na tsarin da ya kasance a farkon rabin karni na farko BC.
Binciken ya kasance abin mamaki, tun da yake ba a san wani binciken da aka gano tun shekaru 2,700 daga Old Dongola ba, in ji wata sanarwa da masu binciken kayan tarihi na Cibiyar Nazarin Archaeology ta Poland a Jami'ar Warsaw suka bayyana.
A cikin wasu gabobin haikalin, masu binciken kayan tarihi sun sami guntuwar rubuce-rubuce, ciki har da wanda ke ambaton cewa an sadaukar da haikalin ga Amun-Ra na Kawa, Dawid Wieczorek, masanin ilimin Masarautar Masarautar da ke aiki tare da ƙungiyar bincike, ya gaya wa Live Science a cikin imel. Amun-Ra wani allah ne da ake bautawa a Kush da Masar, kuma Kawa wuri ne na kayan tarihi a Sudan wanda ya ƙunshi haikali. Babu tabbas idan sabbin tubalan daga wannan haikalin ne ko kuma wanda babu shi.
Julia Budka, farfesa a fannin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi a Jami'ar Ludwig Maximilian ta Munich wacce ta yi ayyuka da yawa a Sudan amma ba ta da hannu a wannan aikin bincike, ta shaida wa Live Science a cikin imel cewa "bincike ne mai mahimmanci kuma yana da tambayoyi da yawa."
Misali, tana tunanin ana iya buƙatar ƙarin bincike don tantance ainihin ranar haikalin. Wata tambaya ita ce ko haikalin ya wanzu a Old Dongola ko kuma an kwashe gawarwakin daga Kawa ko kuma wani wuri, kamar Gebel Barkal, wani wuri a Sudan wanda ke da temples da pyramids da dama, in ji Budka. Ko da yake binciken yana da "mahimmanci" kuma "mai ban sha'awa ne," "ya yi wuri da wuri don faɗi wani abu daidai," kuma ana buƙatar ƙarin bincike, in ji ta.
Ana ci gaba da gudanar da bincike a Old Dongola. Artur Obłuski, masanin ilimin kimiya na kayan tarihi a Cibiyar Nazarin Archaeology ta Yaren mutanen Poland ne ke jagorantar tawagar.
