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3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇩 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 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
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.
