Pyramids of Nubia

Region of the Nile River Basin, known Nubia and in the current borders of Sudan was home to three kingdoms Cushitic ruled in the past: first as its capital vine (2400-1500 BC. AD.), And those that were stationed around the plant (1000-300 BC. AD.), And most recently quenched (300 BC.. - 300 AD).

Each of these kingdoms were affected culturally, economically, politically and militarily Empire Egyptian Pharaonic located in the north, and that these kingdoms Cushitic competed strongly with those in Egypt, and so to the extent that during the late period of the history of ancient Egypt, dominated by kings plant on unified Egypt itself, and ruled the Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty.



Plant control over Egypt was relatively short. The Assyrian control ended in 656 BC. AD. , But the cultural influence was enormous, and this led to healing over the unusual activity in the construction of the pyramids, which continued in subsequent Kingdom, the Kingdom of Meroe.

About 220 brown pyramid in three regions of the Nubia Kodharhh the kings and queens of plant and quenched. First built in the Al-Ahram area Kurru. And include the tombs of King and his son cream Pia, along with the tombs of for eligibility Habaca, Hapataka and Tnotamana, 14 Queen pyramids.

Pyramids subsequent plant built in Nuri, on the West Bank of the River Nile in Upper Nubia. This cemetery graves included 1 king and 52 Queen and Prince / her. The oldest and largest pyramids of Nuri al-back king Napatan and Pharaoh's family and the twenty-fifth, Pharaoh Taharka.

Denser building the pyramids Nubian sites is quenched, located between the fifth and sixth tributary of the Nile River, a distance of about 100 km north of Khartoum. During period irrigated buried more than forty king and queen there.

Nubian pyramids proportions differ significantly from the Egyptian edifices that have influenced them: were built of stone terraces and placed horizontally, ranging heights between six and thirty meters, but they rise from a relatively small base rarely exceeding eight meters wide. Composed so long pyramids descend at an angle approximately 70 degrees. Most of them inspired by the massacres Egyptians when Thoaadha. In comparison, the Egyptian Al-Ahram same height has a base increase at least five meters, and descend at angles ranging between forty and fifty degrees.

Robbed all hierarchical shrines in Nubia in ancient times, but the inscriptions saved on Haddran temples, shrines guests reveal that these graves been mummified Momciat, covered with jewels and placed in wooden coffins mummy. In their exploration by archaeologists in the nineteenth and twentieth century, united in some Ahram bows and arrows blades, thumb rings throwers, bilge horses, wooden boxes, furniture, pottery and vessels of stained glass and metal. And many other artefacts see active trade between Meroites and Egypt and Greek world (Hellenistic).