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Multi-periodSite Name: El-Kurru Pyramids Alternative Name: El-Kourrou Pyramids, El KurruCountry: Sudan
NOTE: This site is 2.079 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Nearest Town: Al Khurtum Nearest Village: Marawi
Latitude: 18.396823N Longitude: 31.756696E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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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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