The third Royal Cemetery near Karima, Nuri, on the West Bank of the Nile Nile 8 km |
Approaching the Pyramids of Nuri across the desert from the west |
Ruins of the ancient pyramids at Nuri rising out of a sandy desert |
The Pyramids of Nuri are older than those at Jebel Barkal and Karima |
Nuri was an active Royal Cemetery from the 7th C. BC to 4th C. BC |
The first burial at Nuri was the XXV (Nubian) Dynasty pharaoh Taharqa, who died in 664BC |
The last burial at Nuri was the Kushite king Nastasen, ca 310 BC |
The pyramids of Nuri exist in varying states of decay |
Like just about everywhere we visited in Sudan, here at Nuri we were on our own |
The pyramids of Nuri are mostly aligned in a row SW to NE |
Nuri contains 20 royal tombs as well as the tombs of 53 queens |
The Pyramids of Nuri are larger than those at Jebel Barkal, but much smaller than those in Egypt |
Nuri's version of the Bent Pyramid |
The main line at Nuri has ten pyramids |
Royal Cemetery - the Pyramids of Nuri |
Well-preserved pyramid, Nuri |
Some of the pyramids were partially disassembled for building material |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
Map of the Pyramids of Nuri at http://ancientegypt3.blogspot.com/2009/06/pyramids-of-nuri.html |
There's a nice list of wikipedia listing who is buried at Nuri |
...but there's no map key to link the tomb numbering system to the pyramids... |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
A pyramid at Nuri that has deteriorated into a mound |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
The smallest pyramids at Nuri belonged to the queens |
Pyramid in the desert, Nuri |
It's nice that the site is not overrun and the sand, for the most part, untrodden |
Nubian pyramid, Nuri |
The Royal Necropolis - Pyramids of Nuri |
Nubian pyramids, Nuri |
Nubian pyramids, Nuri |
Detail of a crumbling pyramid, Nuri |
Sun over the Pyramids of Nuri |
A pyramid at Nuri that is now little more than a mound |
The Pyramids of Nuri |
The Pyramids of Nuri |
The Pyramids of Nuri |
The Pyramids of Nuri |
The Pyramids of Nuri |
Sudanese tourists at Nuri |
Sudanese man walking among the Pyramids of Nuri |
A group of Sudanese tourists at Nuri |
Sudanese tourists at the Pyramids of Nuri |
Footsteps in the sand at the Pyramids of Nuri |
Pyramids of Nuri |
Me at Nuri |
Me with the Pyramids of Nuri |
Trygve and Karen, Pyramids of Nuri |
Trygve and Karen, Pyramids of Nuri |
Nuri Hospital |
"V" monument between Nuri and the Merowe Bridge - the Chinese Salute |
Mahmoud, Karen and Trygve give the Chinese salute |
"V" monument between Nuri and the Merowe Bridge |
The Chinese are constructing a large dam at the 4th Cataract |
Man driving a donkey cart loaded with palms |
Checkered water tower typical of Northern Sudan |
New mosque between Merowe and Nuri, West Bank of the Nile |
pyramid of tarhaqa at nuri.jpg |