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Prehistoric times
circa 5000 BCE, first documented skull, human bones and tools found in 1945[1][2]
^Arkell, A. J. (1945). "The Excavation of an Ancient Site at Khartoum". Sudan Notes and Records. 26 (2): 329–331. ISSN0375-2984. JSTOR41716489.
^Addison, F. (September 1950). "Early Khartoum. An account of the excavation of an early occupation site carried out by the Sudan Government Antiquities Service in 1944–5. By A. J. Arkell". Antiquity (Review). 24 (95): 151–154. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00023176. ISSN0003-598X.
^Heather J. Sharkey (2003), Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-23558-8
^ ab"Khartoum". Islamic Cultural Heritage Database. Istanbul: Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
^Barry M. Rubin (2010). Guide to Islamist Movements. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-4138-0.
^"Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook(PDF). New York: United Nations. 1997. pp. 262–321.
^Regional Integration in Africa. OECD and African Development Bank. 2002.
Stevenson, R. C. (1966). "Old Khartoum, 1821-1885". Sudan Notes and Records. 47: 28f. ISSN0375-2984. JSTOR44947302.
R.P.D. Walsh; et al. (1994). "Flood Frequency and Impacts at Khartoum since the Early Nineteenth Century". Geographical Journal. 160 (3): 266–279. doi:10.2307/3059609. JSTOR3059609.
Walkley, C. (1935). The story of Khartoum. Sudan Notes and Records, 18(2), 221–241.
Published in 21st century
Galal Eldin Eltayeb (2003). "The Case of Khartoum, Sudan". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London.
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Khartoum, Sudan". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23479-4.
Kevin Shillington, ed. (2005). "Khartoum". Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-245-6.
Bruce E. Stanley; Michael R.T. Dumper, eds. (2008), "Khartoum", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO