The pyramids at Meroë are the last remaining structures of a trading city that stood at the capital of the Kingdom of Kush. Discover its history here.

Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a necropolis for the kings and queens of Kush for close to 600 years. ... In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, ...

Explore the Great City of Meroe, third and last capital of the Ancient Kingdom of Kush. In the middle of the fourth century, Axumite armies forged their way inland along the Nile Valley, invading ...

It gave rise to one of Africa’s earliest civilizations, the Kingdom of Kush, whose kings—nicknamed the Black Pharaohs—conquered Egypt in 747 B.C. and ruled the vast territory for nearly a ...

The Kingdom of Kush was located on the Nile in a region called Nubia, in what are now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. The region was ruled by Egypt until about 1070 B.C., when the Kushites ...

But later in the kingdom’s history the taboo was relaxed somewhat, and a few wealthy people were allowed to erect monuments for themselves. But their pyramids never rivaled the royals’ in size.

Sudan’s pyramids are the legacy of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient superpower that flourished between 800 BCE and 350 CE in ...

The Kingdom of Meroe began to fade as a power by the first or second century AD, sapped by war with Roman Egypt and the decline of its traditional industries.