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Excavation ongoing places tagged “meroitic” in Sudan · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing places tagged “meroitic” in Sudan

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🇸🇩 Sudan

🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Kawa Temple T & Pyramidal Tombs (Gematen)

Egyptian New Kingdom extraction to Kushite Napatan/Meroitic · Kushite (25th Dynasty / Napatan / Meroitic)

Kushite holy city at Kawa (Gematen) — Temple T of Taharqa c.683 BCE plus hundreds of small sandstone pyramids 3–7 m for Meroitic elite 700 BCE–400 CE.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Sedeinga Pyramids

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…