The Jebel Barkal Museum is an archaeological site museum located on the eastern side of the archeological area of
Jebel Barkal
Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal ( ar, جبل بركل) is a mesa or large rock outcrop located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, on the Nile River, in the region that is sometimes called Nubia. The jebel is 10 ...
at
Karima The name Karima (Arabic: كريمة) is an Arabic given name. In Arabic the meaning of the name Karima is Generous. Karima is the feminine form of the name Karim. It’s a popular name in the Arab countries.
However Karima in Africa among the agik ...
in the
Northern State of
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
.
Displays
![JebelBarkalMuseum2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/JebelBarkalMuseum2.jpg)
The three gallery rooms of the museum display artefacts and pottery findings from excavations conducted in the Jebel Barkal area, among them one of the royal
Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, was the last dynasty of th ...
statues found by
George A. Reisner
George Andrew Reisner Jr. (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Palestine.
Biography
Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were George Andrew Reisner I and Mary Elizabeth ...
in 1916.
The finding of the Jebel Barkal statues.
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Museums in Sudan
Archaeological museums
History of Nubia
Kingdom of Kush