🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Nuri Pyramid Nu.1 (King Taharqa)
Napatan, 25th Dynasty, c.690–664 BCE · Kushite (Egyptianized Napatan)
Largest pyramid at Nuri (Nu.1) for Taharqa (c.664 BCE, 25th Dynasty), 52 m base, 40–50 m original height.
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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan, 25th Dynasty, c.690–664 BCE · Kushite (Egyptianized Napatan)
Largest pyramid at Nuri (Nu.1) for Taharqa (c.664 BCE, 25th Dynasty), 52 m base, 40–50 m original height.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan / Kushite · Kushite
Burial place of Napatan kings (c.664–310 BCE) including pyramid of Taharqa (52 m base, tallest Nubian), across Nile from Jebel Barkal holy mountain.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon in Northern, Nuri, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Kushite (Napatan)
Napatan rock-cut cemetery 3 km south Jebel Barkal (1200–750 BCE), pyramids 4–6 m base, rock tombs.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic, c.300 BCE–350 CE (Meroitic Kushite) · Kushite / Meroitic
Meroe North Cemetery at Begarawiya ridge north of Meroe city: 44 steep-sided Meroitic pyramids 8-15 m base, 10-20 m high, with pylon chapels, stelae and offering tables.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom, 1550-1070 BCE (Thutmose III–Ramesses II) · Ancient Egyptian
Sai Island northern town (Upper Nubia) on island mid-Nile between 2nd and 3rd Cataracts: Egyptian walled town 238×120 m with Amun temple (Thutmose III–Amenhotep II), governor's residence and…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic, c.300 BCE–350 CE · Kushite / Meroitic
Jebel Barkal north necropolis at foot of holy mountain's pinnacle rock: 11 pyramids (Bar.1-20, 10-15 m base, 70° steep) with chapels for Meroitic kings and queens who retained Napatan sacred…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
New Meroe Mound Central — Meroe (53-46) at Meroe, Sudan is a Medieval (regional) pyramid of the Medieval tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Early Kushite (El-Kurru phase 860–310 BCE; Piye 747–716 BCE) · Kushite (early Napatan)
Earliest Kushite royal necropolis (860–310 BCE) with 22 pyramids for Napatan kings including Piye (Piankhi), founder of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, Taharqa, and early ancestors.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan founding, c.750 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Founder's pyramid Ku.1 at El-Kurru for King Piye/Piankhy (c.747–716 BCE, founder of 25th Dynasty who conquered Egypt).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic Kingdom, c.180–170 BCE · Kushite (Meroitic)
Royal pyramid Beg. N.9 in North Cemetery of Meroë belonging to King Tabirqo (Adikhalamani Tabirqo, c.180–170 BCE).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic, early, c.300–250 BCE · Kushite (Meroitic)
North Cemetery pyramid Beg. N.19 for King Nasakhma (c.300–250 BCE), elderly ruler, 16.8 m base, steep sandstone pyramid. Reisner Harvard-Boston 1921 cleared chapel with offering table looted.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom (Egyptian colonial) to Napatan/Third Intermediate (1300–750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and indigenous Nubian (Kerma–Napatan)
Third Cataract Egyptian colonial and Nubian tumulus cemetery (1450–750 BCE), granite quarry island, pyramid chapels.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
El Kurru Pyramid Ku 17 Forecourt in Northern, El Kurru, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Sedeinga Pyramid 215 West Facade in Northern, Sedeinga, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to early Kushite, c.1550-750 BCE (18th Dynasty onward) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite
Tombos island and east bank cemetery at Tombos quarry 3rd Cataract: pyramidal tombs (8×8 m base) with chapels and shafts for Egyptian officials and Kushite successors (1400-750 BCE).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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
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
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
Kerma to New Kingdom (2000 BCE Egyptian colonial peak 1500–1070 BCE, reused Napatan 750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial (18th Dynasty) with Kerma-Nubian substrate
New Kingdom Egyptian temple-town on Sai Island (Thutmose III) with northern town fortified settlement, Egyptian temple for Amun (later Kushite), and associated small pyramids and shaft tombs in…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to early Napatan, c.1200-750 BCE (Ramesside to 25th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite
Hillat el-Arab cemetery 3 km south of Jebel Barkal at foot of holy mountain: tumuli, mastabas and small steep pyramids (6-8 m base) with painted chapels for Kushite elite 1200-750 BCE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ~1380 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (imperial Nubia) and Napatan
Largest Egyptian temple in Nubia (Amenhotep III, c.1380 BCE), 135 m long, with Napatan pyramid cemetery.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Classic Kerma, c.1750-1500 BCE · Kerma (Kushite)
Western Deffufa (Western Massif) at Kerma: massive mudbrick solid massif 52×52 m base, 19 m high, with internal stair, altar and funerary chapel on summit.
