“The pyramids were built as tombs for the kings and queens of the Meroitic Kingdom and Napata,” Google answers the Googly. “The structures were built by the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient ...

The pyramids of Meroë adopted a strikingly similar ... but from then on, the Meroitic civilization was largely left in peace. The jewels of Meroë’s first-century B.C. queen Amanishakheto ...

During the Meroitic kingdom,--the period when Meroe ... "In the debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr ...