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Approximately 255 pyramids were eventually constructed at three sites in Nubia, thus called Nubian pyramids, over a period of a few hundred years to serve as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroë
The most extensive Nubian pyramid site is at Meroë, which is located between the fifth and sixth cataracts of the Nile, approximately 62 miles north of Khartoum. During the Meroitic period, over forty queens and kings were buried there.
The physical proportions of Nubian pyramids differ markedly from the Egyptian edifices.
All of the pyramid tombs of Nubia were plundered in ancient times. Wall reliefs preserved in the tomb chapels reveal that their royal occupants were mummified, covered with jewellery and laid to rest in wooden mummy cases.
Several pyramids stand out with their sharp shapes against the clear sky. Each one has its own funerary chapel with the walls fully decorated with bas-reliefs that show the king's life and offers to the gods.
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Only several of the pyramids have been rebuilt. The sands of the Sudan are reclaiming the temples as fast as they are unearthed.
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This necropolis was the burial place of 21 kings and 52 queens and princes including Anlami and Aspelta. The bodies of these kings were placed in huge granite sarcophagi. Aspelta's weighed 15.5 tons, and its lid weighed four tons. The oldest and largest pyramid at Nuri is that of the Napatan king and Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa
The Meroe Camp where we are staying in the distance
Nubian Desert, Sudan, Nahr an Nil province. Meroe Necropolis listed as World Heritage by UNESCO
Camels in the foreground
Camel and riders waiting for potential customers to ride several blocks across the desert floor.
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