The 25th Dynasty originated in Nubia, in what is today Sudan, and ruled over ancient Egypt between 744 and 656 BC.

Surprisingly, Sudan holds that title, with more pyramids than its northern neighbor! Tucked away in the vast deserts of Sudan ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of ... of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black Pharaohs. The tomb of Queen Khennuwa in Meroë.

known as the Black Pharaohs, who controlled vast parts of the Nile Valley from around 747 BC. Unlike in Egypt, where pharaohs were buried inside pyramids, Kushite royalty were buried beneath them.

Sudan’s pyramids are the legacy of the Kingdom ... even conquering Egypt to establish the 25th dynasty, led by the Black Pharaohs. Among them was Piye, the ambitious ruler who, in 770 BCE ...

It was believed that the pyramids, by reflecting sunlight, connected the earth with the sky and the Pharaoh with Ra, the sun god. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by Pharaoh Khufu between 2551 ...

Five thousand years ago Giza, situated on the Nile's west bank, became the royal necropolis, or burial place, for Memphis, the pharaoh's capital city. Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were ...

Pyramids were not built as tombs Movies often depict pyramids as giant tombs for pharaohs. But that's wrong ... many of whom were themselves white and saw Black people as inferior, he said.

This is where our history of Egypt begins, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Giza ... advanced civilization where the kings, known as pharaohs, were believed to be gods.