Korosko

Korosko was a settlement on the Nile River in Egyptian Nubia.

It was located 118 miles (190 km) south of Aswan and served as the point of departure for caravans avoiding the Dongola bend in the river by striking out directly across the desert to Abu Hamad and thereby bypassing the second, third and fourth cataracts of the Nile.

During the Meroitic period it was the main connection between the Kingdom of Kush and the Mediterranean world.

[1] Korosko was only replaced in this function by Wadi Halfa after the construction of the Sudan Military Railroad during the 1890s amid the Mahdi War.

[2] Its former location was flooded by Lake Nasser upon the completion of the Aswan High Dam.

A map of 19th-century rail and caravan routes in Sudan—including Korosko—from Churchill 's 1899 River War .