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5 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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 · Pyramid
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 · Pyramid
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
New Kingdom (viceregal Kush) to early Napatan · Egyptian / Kushite (Napatan)
Napatan pyramid cemetery 5 km N of Jebel Barkal — 20 tombs 1400–300 BCE with small steep pyramids 5–8 m bridging New Kingdom viceregal and Kushite Kush.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma reuse to Kushite (25th Dynasty–Meroitic) · Kerma / Kushite (Napatan)
Argo Island pyramidal mound-temple at Tabo — 14 m mudbrick platform with Taharqa Amun temple c.690 BCE and 8 Napatan pyramids 5–8 m.
