Napata was a city on the west bank of the Nile river, some 400 km north of the present capital of Sudan. It was built around 1450 BC, by the egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III, when he extended his empire to that region and considered Gebel Barkal, the nearby mountain, its southern limit. Some 300 years later, Napata became the capital of the independent kingdom of Kush. The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is one of the two... (Redirected from 1450 BC) Centuries: 16th century BC - 15th century BC - 14th century BC Decades: 1500s BC 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC - 1450s BC - 1440s BC 1430s BC 1420s BC 1410s BC 1400s BC Events and Trends According to some, 1456 BC was the year that Moses... This article refers to the historical Pharaoh. ... Thutmose III (also written as Tuthmosis III; called Manahpi(r)ya in the Amarna letters) (? - 1426 BC), was Pharaoh of Egypt in the Eighteenth Dynasty. ... Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is small a mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia. ... Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroe Kush or Cush was a civilization south of Ancient Egypt in Nubia. ...

Its ruins include at least 13 temples and 3 palaces, that were for the first described by european explorers in the 1820’s. The larger temples, such that of Amon, are even today considered sacred to the local population. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... 1820 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

For these reasons, the mountain, together with the historical cities of Meroe and Napata, were considered by UNESCO, in 2003, World Heritage Sites. Aerial view of the pyramids at Meroe. ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...

See also

• LearningSites.com - Gebel Barkal (http://www.learningsites.com/GebelBarkal-2/GB-index.htm)
• UNESCO World Heritage - Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region (http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1073)
• List of World Heritage Sites in Africa