The pyramids of Kush
from AfroMythos: Tellings
Kush built more pyramids than Egypt did, steeper and smaller, over about a thousand years. Follow them from Piye’s grave at El-Kurru to a flooded tomb at Nuri, an architect’s drawing cut into a chapel wall, and the chapels where the dead were fed; then meet the people who numbered, robbed, copied and rebuilt them, and the pyramids’ troubles today. Read it with pictures and sources: https://afromythos.com/empires/pyramids-of-kush
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