Nuri

The founder of the Nuri cemetery was Taharqo. the greatest of the Kushite rulers of Egypt. His pyramid, now much ruined, once stood approximately 52.5 m sq. and 63 m high.

It was the largest ever built in the Sudan The site was subsequently used for their pyramids by nineteen of his twenty successors in Kush and fifty-three queens, down to the early third century BCE.  Most of Taharqo’s followers are shadowy figures.  Only seven are known by historical texts; the rest are known only by the names actually found in their tomb.  The pyramids of the followers were almost uniformly half the size of Taharqo’s pyramid; those of the queens were generally about one quarter that size

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