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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic (but Napatan tradition), c.700 BCE–300 CE · Kushite / Napatan
Sedeinga 2 km west of Soleb on desert ridge: ~80 small pyramids (6-8 m base, 7-10 m high) with chapels for Kushite Napatan queens, princesses and children.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kushite Napatan to Meroitic (500 BCE–350 CE; peak 250 BCE–100 CE) · Kushite (Napatan → Meroitic)
Largest Kushite pyramid cemetery west of Nile near Second Cataract: ~80 pyramids (densest Meroitic cemetery) and 200+ tombs, discovered by Lepsius 1844 and re-excavated by Vincent Francigny…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan period (700–300 BCE, peak 600–400 BCE queens field) · Kushite (Napatan, Egyptianised queens of 25th Dynasty)
Napatan queens' necropolis (700–300 BCE) with 35 steep sandstone pyramids 6–10 m base, 12 m high with eastern chapel and descendry to pillared burial chamber, for 25th Dynasty queens and Kushite…
