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Temple complexes tagged “taharqa”

4 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.

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🇸🇩 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.

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🇸🇩 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.

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🇸🇩 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.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Tabo (Argo) Temple-Mound & Pyramids

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.