Sudan: Nubian pyramids of the Third Meroitic Period (c. 100 BCE - 150 CE) at Jebel Barkal, 1906. Meroë (also spelled Meroe) is the name of an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site are a group of villages called Bagrawiyah. This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries.

---

Size: 4900px × 3560px
Photo credit: © Pictures From History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: &, 1906, 20th, africa, african, antiquity, architecture, barkal, black, building, bw, cemetery, century, desert, gebel, heritage, historical, history, images, jebel, kingdom, kush, kushite, kushitic, landscape, meroe, meroitic, northeast, nubia, nubian, period, photo, photograph, pictures, pyramid, pyramids, pyrmaids, royal, ruin, ruins, site, sudan, sudanese, temple, unesco, white, world