Sudan

Pyramids of Meroe

A pyramid landscape, not an isolated monument The pyramids of Meroe rise from a dry landscape in Sudan’s River Nile State, near Begrawiya and north of Khartoum. Their steep silhouettes are only one part of a much larger archaeological setting. UNESCO’s property, officially called the Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, includes the ancient city of Meroe and the sites of Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra. UNESCO describes this semi-desert landscape between the Nile and…...