Jebel Barkal
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Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is a mesa located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, and near the Nile River in Nubia. The Jebel is 104 meters tall, has a flat top, and
Jebel Barkal is a small mesa (104 meters tall)
Statue of Pharaoh Taharqa from Jebel Barkal (3.6 meters). National Museum of Sudan.
Ruins of the Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal.
Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal, originally built during the Egyptian New Kingdom but greatly enhanced by Piye.
Napata
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Napata was a city of ancient Kush at the fourth cataract of the Nile founded by the Egyptian Amun cult for Egyptian pilgrims given by its, as suggested, Egyptian name. It is located approximately 1.5
Jebel Barkal
…scattered potsherds.) The Kermans seemingly venerated the mesa in an Animistic fashion, passing the tradition on to the new kingdom Egyptians, and later Napatans and Meroites. Around 1450 BCE, the Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III conquered Jebel Barkal and built a fortified settlement (Egyptian menenu) there as the…
The last standing pillars of the temple of Amun at the foot of Jebel Barkal
Statue of Kushite ruler and pharaoh of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt, Taharqa (ruled 690-664 BC), who led the fight against the Assyrians during the Assyrian conquest of Egypt. Louvre Museum reconstruction.
Kushite pyramids at Nuri
Napatan necklace spacer made of gold, 6th century BC. It is inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs in the name of Aramatle-qo.