Jebel Barkal Jebel very small height of 98 meters, is located 400 kilometers north of the Sudanese capital of the state North neighborhood dignified city at large indigo bending, characterized by flat Bakmth.

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One of the core features of the trade routes between Central Africa and the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt, where that place is the best place to cross the Nile to both shores, as well as being an essential part of the culture of the city-state that grew up on the slopes plant, has been declared the signatories and Jebel Barkal plant as one of the World Heritage sites of UNESCO in 2003.

And the pivotal historical sites, which saw a long part of the civilizations of the Nubian or ancient Cushitic that stretched for more than 5,000 years, but the most prominent historical events keeps the invasion of the pharaoh Thutmose III of the area in the year 1450 BC and its creation garrison next to the plant and adding it to that point is its southern borders.

After 300 years of that it has turned the plant into the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, and the kings of the Twenty-fifth family construction Amon Napatan temple in the city, which is of huge temples, which is considered sacred among the local population even today, as the Avange erect famous Mselth which he called 20 years of victories.

In 1820 the year AD discovered prospectors Europeans three palaces and about 13 synagogues, at least around the mountain, and discovered the officer Egyptian 1862 5 inscriptions dating back third of the transitional period and has deposited in the Cairo Museum, rolled missions after it like a joint mission between Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston led by world-known George Andrew Reisner, and Mission University of Rome Sapienza, who worked on the mountain throughout the seventies of the last century, under the supervision of the world Sergio Donadoni and joined them in the eighties another team from Boston University under the supervision of the world Timothy Kendall