Sudan has nearly twice the number of pyramids as Egypt. Pyramids are well-known ancient Egyptian monuments, but what many people don’t realise is that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
More than 200 pyramids were built in Sudan, as opposed to the 118 pyramids in all of Egypt, during the ancient reign.
They were built by members of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient Nubian civilisation that ruled the areas along the Nile River from 1070 B.C. to 350 A.D. and started even 500 years after the Egyptians.
Built of sandstone and granite, the steeply-sloping pyramids contain chapels and burial chambers decorated with illustrations and inscriptions carved in hieroglyphs and Meroitic script celebrating the rulers’ lives in Meroe – a wealthy Nile city.
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