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That's why Kendall is particularly interested in the jigsaw tableau he has laid out on the sand. The newly discovered blocks, he believes, once made up the vaulted ceiling of a passageway that led to a temple dug into a 300-ft.-high hill known today as Jebel Barkal. It was there, Kendall thinks, that rulers in the ancient Nubian kingdom of Napata and Meroe, which dated from 900 B.C. to A.D. 350, practiced their coronation rites, climaxing in a crowning by the god Amun...
...Jebel Barkal, Kendall hopes to shed new light on the symbiotic relationship of Nubian and Egyptian civilizations. The first temples there were constructed between 1460 B.C. and 1200 B.C., during the relatively brief period when Egypt ruled Nubia. Kendall believes the Egyptians chose this particular craggy hill for a royal sanctuary because, when seen from a distance, Jebel Barkal's silhouette resembles, even today, a crown adorned with a cobra, which is a symbol of royal power. The Egyptians believed Jebel Barkal to be a prime residence of the god Amun, the bestower of royal authority--a notion that...
...much of the hitherto obscure history of ancient Ethiopia have been made recently by the Eqyptian expedition sent by the University and the Boston Museum of Fine Ants under the direction of Dr. George Andrew Reisner '89. In a recent report Dr. Reisner said that during excavations at Gebel Barkal, material bearing on the whole period between 1600 B. C. and 100 A. D. had been found and that prospects were that further excavations would bring to light objects of still greater importance...
...expedition reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
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