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Nuri is a place in modern Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
 on the south (east) side of the Nile. Close to it, there are pyramids belonging to Nubian kings. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal
Jebel Barkal

Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is a small mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Karima, Sudan in Northern, Sudan in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia....
. All these remains belonged to the ancient city Napata
Napata

Napata was a city-state on the west bank of the Blue Nile River, some 400 km north of Khartoum, the present capital of Sudan. It was built around 1345 BC by the Nubians....
, the first capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush. The earliest pyramid (Nu.1) at Nuri belongs to king Taharqa
Taharqa

Taharqa was a pharaoh of History of ancient Egypt and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. His reign can be dated from 690 BC to 664 BC....
 which measures 51.75 metre square by 40 or by 50 metre high..






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Nuri is a place in modern Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
 on the south (east) side of the Nile. Close to it, there are pyramids belonging to Nubian kings. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal
Jebel Barkal

Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is a small mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Karima, Sudan in Northern, Sudan in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia....
. All these remains belonged to the ancient city Napata
Napata

Napata was a city-state on the west bank of the Blue Nile River, some 400 km north of Khartoum, the present capital of Sudan. It was built around 1345 BC by the Nubians....
, the first capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush. The earliest pyramid (Nu.1) at Nuri belongs to king Taharqa
Taharqa

Taharqa was a pharaoh of History of ancient Egypt and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. His reign can be dated from 690 BC to 664 BC....
 which measures 51.75 metre square by 40 or by 50 metre high.. His successor Tantamani
Tantamani

Tantamani or Tanwetamani or Tementhes was king of History of Ancient Egypt , and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt....
 was buried somewhere else, but all following Nubian kings and many of their wives till Nastasen
Nastasen

Nastasen was a List of monarchs of Kush of the North African Nubian civilisation of Kush ....
 (Nu. 15) (about 330 BC) were buried here. The pyramids
Nubian pyramids

The area of the Nile valley known as Nubia that lies within present day Sudan was home to three Kushite kingdoms during antiquity: the first with its capital at Kingdom of Kerma , that centred on Napata and, finally, that of Mero? ....
 at Nuri are in general smaller than the Egyptian ones and are today often heavily destroyed, but they often still contained substantial parts of the funerary equipment of the Kushite rulers who were buried here. During the Christian era, a church was erected here. The church was built of many old stones, including several stelae orgininally coming from the pyramids.

The pyramids were systematically excavated by George Reisner
George Reisner

George Andrew Reisner was an United States archaeologist of Ancient Egypt.He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and died in Giza, Egypt. Upon his studies at Jebel Barkal , in Nubia he found the Nubian kings were not buried in the Nubian pyramids but outside of them....
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The pyramids of Nuri together with other buildings in the region around Gebel Barkal have been placed on the UNESCO list world cultural heritage sites since 2003.

Literature

  • Dows Dunham. The Royal Cemeteries of Kush II, Nuri, Boston (Mass.): Museum of Fine Arts, 1955.


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