However he died, Gordon's head was taken to the Mahdi's headquarters at Omdurman (opposite Khartoum on the other side of the White Nile). There it was shown to Rudolf Carl von Slatin, a prisoner of the Mahdi who had worked for Gordon during his first term in Sudan, who verified it was Gordon's.Rudolph von Slatin, Fire and Sword in the Soudan (Edward Arnold 1896) p. 340 The head was then brought to the Mahdi. According to some sources, the rest of Gordon's body was dumped in the Nile.
