El-Kurru
Earliest of the royal cemeteries of Kush's Napatan kings; burial place of Piye and other Twenty-fifth Dynasty pharaohs, with early Nubian pyramids.
Dated events and their evidence
- 860 BCE mainstream
royal cemetery established source - 750 BCE mainstream
Piye's tomb; shift to monumental pyramids source - 650 BCE mainstream
last 25th-Dynasty king (Tantamani) buried source
Where
18.4100° N, 31.7700° E
Sources
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