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	Nubia - Crystalinks
		Unlike Egypt's famous pyramids to the north, the Pyramids of Meroe are not floodlit at night.
		Pyramids from the Northern Cemetery at Meroe, 3rd c.
		Although the Nubians were no match for the armies of Egypt's Old Kingdom, the interactions arising from their enslavement and colonization led to ever-increasing African influence upon the art, culture, and religion of dynastic Egypt.
	www.crystalinks.com /nubia.html (6420 words)

	Egypt: The Nubian Pyramids
		These pyramids bore much more in common with the private ones that can still be found on the West Bank at Thebes (modern Luxor) than with the Great Pyramids of northern Egypt, though it is commonly assumed that he was inspired by the latter.
		The pyramid of his successor, Shebaka, had a similar layout although the burial chamber was completely subterranean, and included a vaulted ceiling cut in the natural rock.
		The Nubian pyramids are characterized by smaller scale, with steeper slopes, but they are far more numerous, considerably more standardized and owned by more members of the royal households (and probably non-royals as well) than the classical Egyptian pyramids.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/nubiapyramids.htm (2859 words)

	Nubian pyramids - Definition, explanation
		The oldest and largest pyramid at Nuri is that of the Napatan king and twenty-fifth dynasty pharaoh Taharqa.
		The most extensive Nubian pyramid site is at Meroë, which is located between the fifth and sixth cataracts of the Nile, approximately one hundred kilometres north of Khartoum.
		All of the pyramid tombs of Nubia were plundered in ancient times, but wall reliefs preserved in the tomb chapels reveal that their royal occupants were mummified, covered with jewelery and laid to rest in wooden mummy cases.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/nu/nubian_pyramids.php (395 words)

	NUBIA
		The Nubian Empire encompassed Syria in the north to Nubia in the south.
		The Nubian rulers of Kush believed this was a sign from the God Amon of their right to the Egyptian throne.
		The Nubians so disliked their Roman neighbors that a bust of Caesar Augustus was buried beneath a doorway to a temple.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrnubia.html (1518 words)

	THE NUBIAN PYRAMIDS OF LATE ANTIQUITY
		Nuri pyramids were much larger than the earlier pyramids at el-Kurra, reaching heights of 20-30m, and were built using blocks of local red sandstone.
		Pyramids were built from stepped courses of masonry blocks of local red sandstone, and have survived the test of time rather well.
		The re-emergence of the pyramid after such a significant interval is an interesting case of the transfer of an architectural idea from one region and culture to another.
	www.egyptologyonline.com /pyramids_-_late.htm (741 words)

	Ancient Nubian Pyramids
		By about 300 BC the center of the kingdom had shifted south to the Meroe region in central Sudan, where the pyramids and tombs were built to house the bodies of their kings and queens.
		Their tombs, built under steep pyramids, were all badly plundered in ancient times, but pictures preserved in the tomb chapels tell us that the rulers were mummified and covered with jewelry and laid in wooden mummy cases.
		in 1968, and the flooding of the Nubian homeland, the last of the Nubian people were forced to leave the area that extended south along the banks of the Nile from Aswan in the north to the Sudanese border 290 miles south.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/nubian105.html (2655 words)

	Egyptian Pyramids
		To the east of the pyramid, some of the smooth basalt paving of the mortuary temple remains and the causeway which led to the river temple is now buried with the valley temple being under modern buildings.
		Although being influenced by the Egyptian pyramids, the pyramids in Nubia had their own style and were built on a smaller scale and with steeper sides.
		In the case of the Nubian pyramids, the tombs of owners were usually underground with the pyramid built on top.
	homepage.powerup.com.au /~ancient/pyra1.htm (972 words)

	Mayan Kids ~ Journey into Mexico
		Nubian pyramids, about 200 of them, were constructed at three sites in Nubia to serve as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroë;.
		Nubian pyramids were constructed at a steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings.
		The Summum Pyramid, a 3 story pyramid in Salt Lake City, Utah is used for instruction in the Summum philosophy and conducting rites associated with Modern Mummification.
	mayankids.com /mmkplaces/mkpyramids2.htm (531 words)

	pyramids
		Pyramid - a rational approach to the mysteries of the Pyramids.
		Pyramid Mathematics The author argues that the Pyramids are based upon rational mathematics and that they were built by man.
		Pyramid Construction - ongoing research on the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.
	www.geocities.com /adriandemoxica/pyramids.html (806 words)

	More Info on pyramids - - pyramid - - pyrmids
		An n-sided pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting an n-sided polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by n triangular faces (n≥3).
		The Nubian pyramids were constructed at a much steeper angle than Egyptian ones and were not tombs, but monuments to dead kings.
		The 27-meter-high pyramid of Gaius Cestius was built by the end of the first century BC and still exists today, close to the Porta San Paolo.
	www.usgovernetics.com /Pri-to-Que/pyramids.php (1255 words)

	Nubian
		The ancestors of the NUBIAN were the feral goats of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
		The NUBIAN was bred as a supplier of milk and meat and its history goes back to the time of the construction of the pyramids and beyond.
		Because of the powerful prepotency of the NOBLE NUBIAN, the NUBIAN today bears a striking resemblance to the photos of the animals that were shown in the Paris zoo in the late 19th century.
	www.stonehavenstud.com.au /GNOW/nubian.htm (1963 words)

	Origin of the Egyptian Temples
		Ostensibly depicting Augustus worshipping the Nubian local deities, the relief decoration and accompanying inscriptions pay particular homage to brothers, Pahor and Pedese, who are believed to have been sons of a local Nubian elite ruler and who seem to have met their fate by drowning in the Nile River, apparently resulting in their being deified.
		Nubian religious praxis in speoi, therefore, persisted into the Roman Period at both Sayala and Dendur alike.
		This particularly Nubian architectural expression was adopted by the Egyptians of the New Kingdom, whose pharaohs commissioned several temples in Upper Egypt and in Nubia.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/temples.html (378 words)

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		Probably because Taharqa was recognized as greatest member of the dynasty, his successors allowed his pyramid to remain more than twice the size of any of their pyramids.
		The queens' pyramids averaged about 30 ft.(9 m) on a side, although near the end of the period the pyramids of the primary queens reached 56 ft (17 m), attesting to the increasing political importance of these ladies.
		Small chapels were built on the eastern sides of the pyramids (facing away from the river toward sunrise); and within these chapels offerings of food and drink were made to the deceased owners.
	www.nubianet.org /about/about_history7.html (1376 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Sudan: The Land of Pyramids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Since the Meroe pyramids are now a prime tourist attraction, the Sudanese authorities have launched a conservation and reconstruction program to make good the deeds of Ferlini and his ilk and to develop the site for tourists - including the restoration of some of the pyramids to their original state.
		In one compartment a female warrior, with the royal ensigns on her head, and richly attired, drags forward a number of captives as offerings to the gods; upon the other she is in warlike habit, about to destroy the same group, whose heads are fastened together by the top hair....
		This representation, together with the magnitude of the pyramid, renders it probable that it is the sepulchre of a king.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199104/sudan-the.land.of.pyramids.htm (1826 words)

	Egypt Pyramids Index
		In Egypt, all but a select few of the pyramids were built as tombs, sometimes to hold the physical body of a pharaoh (as well as other individuals), or to hold the soul of the deceased (as in the case of the small cult pyramids built next to the larger ones).
		While pyramids were, for the most part, tombs for the Pharaohs of Egypt, one must nevertheless question the reason that Egyptian rulers chose this particular shape, and for that matter, why they built them so large.
		Royal pyramid complexes included the main pyramid, a courtyard surrounding the main pyramid, a much smaller cult pyramid for the king's soul, a mortuary temple situated next to the main pyramid, an enclosure wall and a causeway that led down to a valley temple.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/pyramids.htm (1317 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		The ancient Nubian city of Meroë, considered one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in Africa, was at the heart of a powerful fl civilization that flourished along the upper Nile River from about 750 BC to 350 AD.
		But archeologists were so preoccupied with Egypt's pyramids and kingdoms to the north -- and deterred by the political conflict in Sudan -- they largely ignored the ancient Nubian culture.
		At the height of their culture, Nubian kings are said to have ruled Egypt from 750 to 650 BC.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news/?id=1515 (1048 words)

	Ancient Nubia
		Ancient Egyptians gave the name "Kush" to the Nubian land or the Nubian Kingdom, which extended from what is today southern Egypt to northern Sudan.
		They seem to have combined their own state God, Amun, with the Nubian God and promoted the idea that these two Gods were same.
		She backed-up her claim by pointing to recent findings that showed the Nubians had developed a complete irrigation system in Kerma region, some 550 km north Khartoum, where they carefully organised cultivation beds and grows crops.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/latestfindings3.html (761 words)

	\|\|The Cradle of Nubian Civilisation\|\|
		More Pyramids in Nubia than anywhere:Kings were believed to be living gods and when died them and their queen were burried in great splendor.
		King Taharqo the great Kushite Nubian was the greatest builder of his line and many new structures were erected in Egypt in his reign.
		When Egypt was under Kushite rule and At Karanak(Egypt) he erected four colonnades at the entrances to the pricipal New Kingdom temples, of which that in the first court of the Temple of Amun.
	www.thenubian.net /kingdom.php (686 words)

	Neferchichi's Tomb at neferchichi.com
		The most elaborate tombs are the pharaohs' pyramids, but other tombs were underground or carved out of the sides of cliffs.
		This was called a step pyramid and it eventually inspired the construction of the bent pyramid and the traditional perfectly geometrical pyramids like those belonging to Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
		Nubian pyramids were smaller and more pointed than Egyptian pyramids.
	www.neferchichi.com /mum4.html (489 words)

	Sudanarchaeology
		It has become traditional to refer to all the ancient inhabitants of this region as 'Nubian', although that name is of relatively recent origin, first appearing in historical texts during the mid-first millennium BCE.
		The Nubian kings were converted to Christianity after 540 CE, and the influence of the Church and its institutions is apparent in many elements of medieval Nubian culture.
		The increasing political weakness of the Nubian kings saw a gradual erosion of their power during the 14th and 15th centuries and the slow disintegration of their kingdoms.
	www.spicey.demon.co.uk /Nubianpage/SUDANARC.htm (1164 words)

	Oriental Institute brings ancient Nubia to Chicago
		From 1960 to 1968, teams from the Oriental Institute worked intensively in the Nubian Salvage project, excavating numerous archaeological sites in both Egypt and Sudan in a race against the flooding of this part of the Nile valley, as construction of the Aswan High Dam was about to begin, said Stein.
		Faces of the Nubians on sculptures and paintings show how the Egyptians portrayed their southern neighbors both as subordinated captives and as accomplished members of their society.
		“The opening of the Nubian gallery marks the end of a 10-year, $15-million project in which climate control was installed in the museum storerooms and galleries, and in which all the exhibitions were dismantled and completely reinstalled.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /060216/nubia.shtml (1188 words)

	Nubian Pyramids of Sudan
		It felt a bit ill advised, but we could see the pyramids running along the sandy ridge just a short walk from the road, so we knew we were in the right spot.
		Unfortunately, he got lucky, as this happened to be the only pyramid with treasure inside.
		The stones near the base of the pyramids reveal deeply textured sandstone grain, as centuries of windblown sand take their toll.
	www.travelblog.org /Africa/Sudan/blog-66022.html (773 words)

	Nubian Pyramids - EgyptSearch Forums
		Nubian pyramids were built at the sites of el-Kurra, Nuri and Meroe.The first Nubian pyramids were built at the site of el-Kurru, 13km downstream from the Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal.
		At the time of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, 2250BC much of Africa was not under civilizations that needed or built pyramids but under control of stone age hunters like the San often called Bushmen, the Pygmy tribes or perhaps the Khoisan, Sidamo and Doboro peoples who were then hunters in east and southern Africa.
		He is not claiming the Nubians built underground tombs that were covered with a stone ceiling and a mound constructed on top of it or that such tombs were precursors to Egyptian pyramids.That would be understandable.
	www.egyptsearch.com /forums/Forum8/HTML/000198.html (4387 words)

	» 2006 » March » 07 - Ultimate Places
		While the Pyramids of Giza outside of Cairo get alot of press, and the average person has probably heard about them, they represent only a fraction of the pyramids built by the Egyptian Pharoahs, and their Nubian neighbors to the south.
		Of these lesser known pyramids, probably some of the most spectacular and best preserved are the Nubian pyramids of Meroe, built between 300 B.C. The Meroe pyramids weren’t really a product of the Egyptians, but are one of the influences that Egyptian culture had on its Nubian neighbors.
		For a time the Nubian Kings ruled over both Egypt and Nubia as the 25th dynasty of Egyptian Pharoahs, before sucumbing to the Assyrians in 656 B.C. To find the Meroe pyramids in today’s world requires travelling to Sudan, a country that is arguably in the grips of a civil war, and ethnic genocide.
	ultimateplaces.com /blog/2006/03/07 (245 words)

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	The Pyramids of Nubia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mythology recounted that the dying or setting sun travelled through the underworld in its journey towards the east where it was to bc reborn at the dawn of the day.
		Probably the doors to this chapel would be opened by a priest at sunrise so that the light could shine in on the stela that was placed against the rear wall.
		The mummified kings and queens were laid upon beds in accordance with the ancient tradition of Kerma (sec p.
	www.jacobins.mairie-toulouse.fr /expos/pharaons/anglais/textes/pyramids.htm (517 words)

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