🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Hillat el-Arab
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.
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🇸🇩 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
Late New Kingdom to early Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Kushite (Nubian, Napatan early, Egyptianised)
Napatan-period cemetery (1200–750 BCE, early Kush) 3 km south of Jebel Barkal near Karima, on low sandstone ridge.
🇸🇩 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
Kushite Napatan (c. 700 BCE–300 CE; field pyramids c. 300 BCE–100 CE) · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty descendants)
Hill of Jebel Barkal sacred mountain (98 m flat-topped sandstone pinnacle) with 10+ small Kushite pyramids of Napatan kings (c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
New Kingdom Egyptian (1450 BCE) → Napatan Kushite (750 BCE) → Meroitic · Egyptian → Kushite Napatan Kingdom
Barkal excavated by Reisner 1916 and Kendall 1980s, Napatan Amun of Karnak origin, UNESCO 2003 Gebel Barkal.
🇸🇩 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 · Ancient city
Medieval Christian–Islamic Nubia (500–1317 CE; peak 800–12th c.) · Makuria (Christian Nubia) / Islamic
Old Dongola on Nile opposite Letti is Makuria Christian Nubia's capital 500–1317 CE, 45 ha walled town with colonnaded citadel, palace of Ioannes (11th c.) 28×18 m with frescoes, five churches…
🇸🇩 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
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.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic to Christian, c.300 BCE–500 CE · Kushite / Meroitic
Tabo mound at southern tip of Argo Island (40 km north of Dongola) between 3rd-4th Cataracts: massive artificial temple mound (10 m high) supporting Meroitic Amun temple (50×70 m) with late Kushite…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom antecedent to Napatan (Taharqo 690 BCE) to Meroitic 350 CE · Kushite (Napatan-Meroitic, Taharqo)
Kushite temple (Argo Island, largest Nile island c.30 km long) founded Taharqo 25th Dynasty (688 BCE) over New Kingdom levels, 35×25 m sandstone temple with pylon, pronaos and sanctuary on granite…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Meroitic (300 BCE–300 CE) temple built Taharqa 690 BCE core earlier · Napatan Taharqa → Meroitic Isis cult
Argo Tabo excavated by Hinkel 1959 synthetic, Taharqa colossus 4 m from Tabo granodiorite.
🇸🇩 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
New Kingdom Egyptian colonial (1500–1070 BCE) reused Napatan (750–650 BCE) · Egyptian colonial (New Kingdom) and early Kushite
Napatan and New Kingdom Egyptian cemetery with small steep pyramids (c.1500–500 BCE) on alluvial plain of Nile at Third Cataract near Tombos village.
🇸🇩 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
Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE Northern Field 41 queens/kings) · Meroitic Kushite
Meroe Begrawiya excavated by Reisner 1921 and Lepsius, 3 fields 150 pyramids, North Field queens 41.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Gebel al-Ain is a plateau in Sudan at the border between the Northern State and North Kordofan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Jebel Dosha is a sandstone promontory right beside the Nile, on the western river bank between Soleb and Sedeinga in Northern State in Sudan.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Temple at archaeological site at Jebel Barkal in Northern State, Sudan
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic Kingdom (300 BCE–350 CE, preceded by Napatan 750–300 BCE Napatan early pyramids) · Kushite (Meroitic, post-Napatan, Egyptianised)
Northern royal necropolis of Kingdom of Kush at Meroe — Begarawiya North: 45 steep pyramids (Napatan to Meroitic 300 BCE–350 CE) of sandstone, 8–30 m base, 12–30 m high with chapel reliefs, steep 70°…