⛰️ Gebel Adda

Gebel or Jebel Adda was a mountain and archaeological site on the right bank of the Nubian Nile in what is now southern Egypt. The settlement on its crest was continuously inhabited from the late Meroitic period to the Ottoman period, when it was abandoned by the late 18th century. It reached its greatest prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, when it seemed to have been the capital of Nubian kingdom of Makuria under the names Dau and Atwa. Much of the site is now underwater, flooded by the construction of Lake Nasser.