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Kingdom of Kush

Architecture

Temples, palaces and more than two hundred steep-sided pyramids.

Pyramids of Meroë rising from the Sudanese desert
The royal pyramids of Meroë in present-day Sudan.

Kushite pyramids are smaller and steeper than those of Egypt, and were built as royal tombs across El-Kurru, Nuri and Meroë.

Sudan is recognized as having the most pyramids in the world, more than twice as many as Egypt.