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| Brian McMorrow | profile | all galleries >> Middle East, North Africa & the Caucasus >> Sudan السودان >> Karima >> Nuri | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 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 |
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