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Nubian pyramids older than tourists and younger than Egypt's

Funerary chapel wall of a Meroitic Queen, likely that of Shanakdakheto, from the 2nd century BC. Originally from pyramid N.11 at Meroe. EA 719.
Funerary chapel wall of a Meroitic Queen, likely that of Shanakdakheto, from the 2nd century BC. Originally from pyramid N.11 at Meroe. EA 719. © Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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