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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Gebel Barkal: The Sacred Mountain That Launched the Black Pharaohs, 19 Nubian Pyramids Steeper Than Egypt’s and the Kingdom of Kush That Conquered the Nile From the South

UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Gebel Barkal: The Sacred Mountain That Launched the Black Pharaohs, 19 Nubian Pyramids Steeper Than Egypt’s and the Kingdom of Kush That Conquered the Nile From the South

Gebel Barkal is a 98-metre sandstone mountain in northern Sudan that served as the sacred centre of the Napatan kingdom — the civilisation whose kings conquered all of Egypt in the 8th century BCE and built more pyramids than any Egyptian dynasty. The UNESCO-inscribed site includes the Temple of Amun, royal pyramid fields at Nuri (containing Taharqa’s 65-metre pyramid), and the earliest Kushite cemetery at El-Kurru.

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