18.5358°N, 31.8208°E.
Sandstone butte rising 98 metres from the floodplain of the Nile in northern Sudan, considered the southern home of the god Amun in ancient Egyptian religion. The mountain's distinctive vertical pinnacle (the Pinnacle, also called the Cobra) was identified by 18th-dynasty pharaoh Thutmose III as the residing form of Amun. The Temple of Amun (Building B500), at the base of the cliff, was begun under Thutmose III (~1450 BCE) and expanded by Ramses II, the Kushite king Piye (~720 BCE), and the Meroitic queen Amanitore (~1st century CE) — a single complex used continuously for 1,500 years across two civilizations. Relief carvings inside record the coronation of Kushite kings as legitimate rulers of both Kush and Egypt.
Eighteenth-dynasty Egyptians and 25th-dynasty Kushites worshipped at the same mountain in the same temple — using the same gods to claim each other's throne for one and a half millennia.