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Multi-periodSite Name: El-Kurru Pyramids Alternative Name: El-Kourrou Pyramids, El Kurru
Country: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 1.892 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Al Khurtum  Nearest Village: Marawi
Latitude: 18.396823N  Longitude: 31.756696E
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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El-Kurru Pyramids
El-Kurru Pyramids submitted by Creative Commons : A guide silhouetted against the painting in one of the ancient Nubian tombs at El-Kurru near Karima, Sudan. A stairwell angles down into the sand to a tomb with two small rooms. The tombs here date from circa 1000 BCE. Most of the pyramids and tombs have been destroyed, but you can still visit the tombs of Pharoah Tanutamen and his mother, Qalhata. Creative Commons image by Mark Fischer ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Part of five Napatan archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, relating to the Napatan (900 to 270 BCE) and Meroitic (270 BCE to 350 CE) cultures, of the second kingdom of Kush in what is now Sudan.

Cemetery in use between 900 and 700 BCE with royal and simpler tombs.

There are numerous, pyramids, tombs, tumuli and temples. Unesco World Heritage sites.

Note: Searching for the lost royal city of Nubia in northern Sudan
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El-Kurru Pyramids submitted by KaiHofmann : The paintings inside the grave. (image taken by Lennart Lehmann in 2015) (Vote or comment on this photo)

El-Kurru Pyramids
El-Kurru Pyramids submitted by Creative Commons : Pharaoh Piye's pyramid at El-Kurru, south of Jebel Barkal, North Sudan. Date November 2008 Creative Commons image by Bertramz Site in Sudan (Vote or comment on this photo)

El-Kurru Pyramids
El-Kurru Pyramids submitted by KaiHofmann : The paintings inside the grave. (image taken by Lennart Lehmann in 2015) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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El-Kurru Pyramids submitted by KaiHofmann : The entrance of the grave (image taken by Lennart Lehmann in 2015) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Searching for the lost royal city of Nubia in northern Sudan by Andy B on Monday, 18 March 2013
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Geoff Emberling is doing what few archaeologists do anymore in a world that has been worked over pretty well by picks, trowels and shovels. He's searching for a lost royal city.

The ancient capital was ruled by the kings of Nubia, which now lies in northern Sudan, just south of Egypt. Little is known about the kings who suddenly appeared on the historical stage about 800 B.C. and conquered all of Egypt before eventually fading back into the desert.

"We have no idea where these kings came from," said Emberling, a research scientist at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan. "They basically appeared out of nowhere."

Nubia, also known as Kush, was one of Africa's earliest centers of political authority, wealth and military power. But because of the lack of information about Nubia, it hasn't been part of the bigger discussion about the rise and fall of civilizations in the way that Egypt and Mesopotamia have.

Much of the archaeological research has focused on tombs and temples in the Nubian capital of El Kurru, Emberling said.

"There has been a real lack of excavation of settlements, where you find out where people actually lived on a daily basis," he said. "I'm excited about filling in that picture."

Emberling set off for El Kurru in the last week of December and plans to stay for six weeks, working near a stretch of the Nile River that flows through the Sahara Desert.

"I'm hoping to come away with a good idea about where the city's remains are and be able to map them as extensively as I can," he said.

Emberling has a general idea about where to dig, based on the notebooks of George Reisner, an American archaeologist who excavated Nubian pyramids in 1918-19. Reisner's notes mentioned a long city wall with a gate facing the Nile. He also said there was a well that could have been big enough to be part of a palace. But the site wasn't excavated and disappeared under the sand.

"One of the challenges is that the city's remnants are completely invisible on the site today," Emberling said. "Since Reisner was only doing this in his notes, there is nothing to locate where any of this was."

Emberling is working with archaeologists from Denmark and Sudan using a variety of techniques: satellite imagery, topographic surveys, magnetometry and geological coring—driving a tube into the ground and pulling up a column of soil.

Remains of the pyramid of Piye. Image credit: Geoff EmberlingRemains of the pyramid of Piye. Image credit: Geoff Emberling"We might not find the city," he said. "It might be that a Nile flood destroyed things to a degree. It might be that the remains were pretty ephemeral to begin with. We'll see."

In recent years, Sudan has been better known as a place of civil war and genocide as well as a base for Al Qaeda. But Emberling said throughout all the unrest and violence, archaeologists have worked without interruption in the northern part of the country.

"It's not nearly as scary as it sounds," he added. "I've loved working with the Sudanese."

Emberling added that for the most part, archaeology is not politicized in Sudan as it is in other countries.

"We're able to just be archaeologists and focus on our work, without worrying about how it will affect claims of different ethnic groups or territorial boundaries, so that's a relief."

Source: University of Michegan
http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21089-searching-for-the-lost-royal-city-of-nubia-in-northern-sudan

With thanks to Coldrum for the link
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Re: El-Kurru Pyramids by Andy B on Saturday, 16 January 2010
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The first Nubian pyramids were built at the site of el-Kurru. The site at el-Kurru contains the tombs of King Kashta and his son Piye (Piankhi), five earlier generations, together with Piye's successors Shabaka, Shebitqo and Tanwetamani and 14 pyramids of the queens.

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