🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Thwaite Temple Complex
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Thwaite Temple Complex in River Nile State, Sudan is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex
Kerma Classic to Napatan (2500–300 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian / Kushite
Strategic Nile island town with Kerma tumuli and Napatan small pyramids — Egyptian fortress-temple city 1550 BCE on 12 km Sai Island between 2nd–3rd cataracts.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension
Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) · Kerma Culture
Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Northern State, Kerma, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kerma Culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Musawwarat es-Sufra — Great Enclosure (Butana Steppe, Sudan)
Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Meroitic)
Enigmatic Meroitic 3rd-century BCE–1st-century CE sandstone temple complex 25 km from Nile in Butana steppe, 180 km NE of Khartoum and 20 km north of Naqa.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Askut Island Fortress — Middle Kingdom Fortified Granary Mound
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1850–1000 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom–New Kingdom)
Rectangular island fortress (c.1850 BCE, renovated through New Kingdom) on second cataract islet, granary and customs depot between Semna and Mirgissa.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Upper Meroe Ridge A — Meroe (53-31)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Meroe Ridge A — Meroe (53-31) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Dokki Gel
Kerma (1800–1500 BCE) to Napatan–Meroitic (1500 BCE–400 CE) · Sub-Saharan African coalition (southern) and Kerma/Egyptian
Sub-Saharan sacred city 400×200 m north of Kerma (1800 BCE–400 CE), African temple platforms 6–8 m high.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Western Terrace
New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) · Napatan
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Western Terrace in Northern State, Karima, Sudan is a New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Napatan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Amara West
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1300–800 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Nubian (Kushite)
Viceregal capital of Egyptian Kush (1300–800 BCE), 200×200 m walled town with 300+ pyramid tombs.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Soleb Temple & Pyramid Field (Amenhotep III)
New Kingdom (18th Dynasty) to Napatan · Egyptian / Kushite
Greatest Nubian temple of Amenhotep III c.1400 BCE at Soleb with 30 small Napatan pyramids and ram avenue south of 3rd Cataract.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Debeira West — New Kingdom Pyramid Cemetery (Lower Nubia)
New Kingdom to early Kushite (1500–1000 BCE) · Egyptianized Nubian (New Kingdom Egyptian–Nubian elite)
Largely unsalvaged New Kingdom to early Kushite pyramid cemetery 22 km north of Semna system, with 15+ steep mudbrick pyramids (base 8–12 m, height inferred 10–15 m) over shaft tombs of Egyptianized…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Soleb Temple Pyramid Field — Amenhotep III
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1380 BCE (Amenhotep III) · Ancient Egyptian (Nebmaatra Amenhotep III)
Soleb Temple (Nebmaatra — Mansion of Millions of Years) on west bank at Soleb between 2nd-3rd Cataracts: Egypt's largest Nubian temple (134×56 m) built by Amenhotep III for Amun and self-deification.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kawa Temple T & Pyramidal Tombs (Gematen)
Egyptian New Kingdom extraction to Kushite Napatan/Meroitic · Kushite (25th Dynasty / Napatan / Meroitic)
Kushite holy city at Kawa (Gematen) — Temple T of Taharqa c.683 BCE plus hundreds of small sandstone pyramids 3–7 m for Meroitic elite 700 BCE–400 CE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Upper Bayuda Terrace Central — Bayuda (57-20)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Bayuda Terrace Central — Bayuda (57-20) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Musawwarat es-Sufra — Great Enclosure North Terrace (Nubia)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Musawwarat es-Sufra — Great Enclosure North Terrace (Nubia) in River Nile, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Northern Annex
New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) · Napatan
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Northern Annex in Northern State, Karima, Sudan is a New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Napatan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Naqa Amun Temple Pylon South
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Naqa Amun Temple Pylon South in River Nile, Naga, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi Temple-Fortress (Akhenaten)
Amarna to post-Amarna New Kingdom to Napatan · Egyptian (Amarna) / Kushite
Akhenaten’s fortified Nubian temple town c.1350 BCE at Sesebi — walled 200×250 m with four temples and external Napatan mini-pyramids.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tabo
Napatan to Meroitic and Christian (680 BCE–500 CE) · Kushite (Napatan/Meroitic)
Kushite temple mound on Argo Island (Taharqa, 700 BCE), 75.6 m Amun temple, 15 m high mound.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kawa
Napatan–Meroitic (683 BCE–350 CE) with New Kingdom predecessor · Kushite (Napatan/Meroitic) with Egyptian Pharonic legacy
Napatan holy city of Gematen (Kawa) with Taharqa's Temple T (683 BCE) and pyramid cemetery.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi
New Kingdom, 18th–19th Dynasty, ~1345 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amarna and Ramesside)
Akhenaten fortified temple-town on Nile west bank (c.1345 BCE), 200×100 m fortress with Aten temple.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kawa Temple T — Taharqo Sanctuary
New Kingdom to Meroitic, 1550 BCE–400 CE (major Taharqo 680 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite (Taharqo, 25th Dynasty)
Kawa (ancient Gem-aten) on east bank between 3rd-4th Cataracts: Taharqo's massive Temple T (Amun) 40×80 m with 12-column hypostyle, built over Tutankhamun shrine (reused talatat).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Naqa — Temple of Apedemak and Meroitic Platform Complex
Meroitic (early to late Meroitic) · Kushite (Meroitic)
Meroitic royal city and temple town 50 km east of Nile, famed for co-built Temple of Apedemak (Natakamani & Amanitore, 1st century CE) with twin pylons covered in lion-god reliefs, Roman kiosk and…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Dokki Gel Sacred City at Kerma South
Early Kerma to Classic Kerma (Ancient Kerma 2500 BCE to Classic 1700 BCE, peak 2000–1500 BCE) · Kerma culture (Nubian, pre-Kushite)
Completely buried sacred city 1.5 km south of Kerma Western Deffufa, discovered by Bonnet-Honegger Swiss mission 2003 with magnetometry: 250×200 m oval enclosure with palisade, ditch, and 13…