1 JEBEL BARKAL AND THE TEMPLE OF AMUN
KARIMA, SUDAN
Located in the Nubia region of Sudan, this site is part of a wider area of sacred religious grounds whose traditions were taken on by the Second Kingdom of Kush. Jebel Barkal is a mountain on the outskirts of the city of Karima, and after the discovery of the mountain, the Ancient Egyptians came to believe that the God Amun lived inside of it, with it eventually becoming an important religious centre. The Egyptians believed that Amun had claimed them as his ‘bodily sons’ to justify their
