On a cloudless morning in northern Sudan, the first rays of the sun cast a glow on Jebel Barkal, a small tabletop mountain perched near the Nile River. Jebel Barkal rises barely 320 feet above the ...

Located on a bend in the Nile in northern Sudan’s Nubia region, Jebel Barkal (Pure Mountain) was believed by ancient Egyptians to be the place the god Amun dwelled. There is an abundance of rich, ...

Jebel Barkal is a small mountain in the northern state of Sudan situated on a large bend of the Nile River. The Pyramids of Jebel Barkal, also known as the Pyramids of Kush, include over 200 pyramids ...

Sphinxes are traditional Egyptian icons but this sphinx has the face of a Sudanese man. It is modelled on the face of King Taharqo - one of the greatest leaders of the kingdom of Kush in modern-day ...

Ill. (some col.), color plates 49-52 (between pages 64 and 65). Essay on the red granite lion statues of the temple of Jebel Barkal, which were removed by Lord Prudhoe sometime between 1829 and 1835 ...

Extracted from: Varia Aegyptiaca (San Antonio, TX) 2, 1986, pages 63-72. Two remarkably similar sandstone dais, or stepped throne platforms, have been found at Meroe and at Jebel Barkal. Both are ...

Ancient Egypt was a long-lived civilization in north-eastern Africa. It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extension during the second ...

On 22-24 October 2019, the UNESCO Khartoum office and National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) organized the 2 nd Workshop on Risk Management in the Sudanese National Museum (SNM) and ...

Khartoum — Head of UNESCO-- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization--Khartoum Office and UNESCO representative to Sudan Pavel Kroupkine (PhD) overviews in the following ...

‘Distraction Tactics’ - Tom Farmer ‘Substrate’ - Tom Farmer ‘No Service’ - Tom Farmer ‘Jebel Barkal (Communion)’ - Shaney Forbes ‘Big Step’ - Nathaniel Facey Continuing the exploration of the themes ...

Thousands of years ago, Jebel Barkal and Napata, the town that grew up around it, served as the spiritual center of ancient Nubia, one of Africa's earliest civilizations. The mountain was also ...