Piye, a Kushite king, led the invasion of Egypt and was the first to be commemorated with a pyramid in El-Kurru, marking the beginning of a tradition in Sudan where over 41 kings and nobles chose ...

Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs ... more than 200 pyramids built at the necropolis at Meroë, giving Sudan more pyramids than all of Egypt. Tall, slender, graceful: These monuments ...

Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt ... "At its height, the Kushite Empire stretched from the confluence of the Nile rivers to the Mediterranean Sea," he wrote in an article on The ...

The tomb is part of the ancient site of Nuri which is spread across more than 170 acres in northern Sudan. These pyramids mark the burials of Kushite royals who are sometimes referred to as "black ...

The pyramids at the site are more than 2,300 years old The authorities in Sudan are trying to protect ... "testify to the wealth and power of the Kushite State", a major power in the region ...

archaeologists have identified the remains of more than 220 royal pyramids in Sudan. Excavations show that early in the Meroitic period (ca. 300 B.C.–A.D. 350), pyramids were built exclusively ...

Every nation has its heroes, history and myths. In Sudan, the points of pride are literal. Our desert is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. These pyramids were built by the ...

Among these are the tombs of 41 Kushite royals ... While some of Meroë’s pyramids have since been restored, most monuments have continued to crumble. Sudan’s multiple civil wars have ...

Every nation has its heroes, history and myths. In Sudan, the points of pride are literal. Our desert is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. These pyramids were built by the ...