The ruins of an Egyptian temple dedicated to God Amon at the foot of Jebel Barkal Mountain. The Egyptian New Kingdom (1521-1075 BC) regarded Jebel Barkal as a holy mountain,the seat of God Amon,and built several temples there. The Black Pharaoh Taharqa subsequently extended this temple. Amon was revered in both Egypt and the Kingdom of Cush as king of the Gods.
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Part of a granite slab from an Egyptian temple dedicated to God Amon at the foot of Jebel Barkal Mountain. A symbolic replica of the temples Sacred Vessel would have rested on top of this slab.
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The ruins of an Egyptian temple at the foot of Jebel Barkal Mountain. The Egyptian New Kingdom (1521-1075 BC) regarded Jebel Barkal as a holy mountain,the seat of God Amon,and built several temples there. Amon was revered in both Egypt and the Kingdom of Cush as king of the Gods.
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Bathed in early morning sunlight, a column of rams represent Amon outside the ruins of one of four temples situated beside an important wadi at Naga some 30 km from the Nile.
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Bathed in early morning sunlight with a full moon still evident in the sky, this ruins of a temple dedicated to Amon is one of the four temples situated beside an important wadi at Naga some 30 km from the Nile.
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Between 400BC and 300BC,the ancient pyramids at Jebel Barkal were used as the burial grounds of the Pharaohs,or Kings,of the Kingdom of Cush. They came into use about the time Nuri came under pressure from Egypt but before the capital of the Kingdom was moved to Meroe.
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The ancient pyramids at Nuri date between 700BC and 300BC. Nineteen kings and fifty three queens from all the dynasties of the Kingdom of Cush are buried in these pyramids including Taharqa, the famous Black Pharaoh who ruled over Egypt in the 7th century BC until the Assyrians expelled him from Egypt.
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Sunrise over the ruins of the temple of Soleb,which was built by Egyptians between 1400BC and 1300BC. Situated close to the right bank of the Nile in Northern Sudan,it was one of three temples that new Pharaohs had to visit by boat before assuming their title.Soleb is the best preserved Egyptian monument in Nubia.
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