Qualla: Pyramids of Meroë https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pyramids of Meroë https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe Pyramids of Meroë: Introduction https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe/ Photo credit Cailliaud, Frédéric in 1826, Public domain. In 1834, an Italian treasure-hunter named Giuseppe Ferlini blew the top off Pyramid N6 at Meroë, looking for gold. He found it: gold bracelets, signet rings, Usekh collars - the personal regalia of Queen Amanishakheto, one of the ruling queens of Kush. The hoard ended up in museums in Berlin and Munich, and the pyramid stayed decapitated. That story gets told a lot. The one that matters more is this: at Meroë, a female pharaoh's tomb was important enough to draw a treasure-hunter halfway across the world - because Kush kept putting women on its throne.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/sepb-pyramids-of-mero-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pyramids of Meroë: Three Cemeteries, One Kingdom https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe/ Photo credit Hans Birger Nilsen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Pyramids of Meroë are not one pyramid field but three, scattered across a few kilometers of desert near the ancient capital of the same name. Together they hold more than a thousand graves, of which at least 147 were pyramids. The Southern Cemetery came first in the Meroitic ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/sepb-pyramids-of-mero-three-cemeteries-one-kingdom.mp3 0:06 2 full Pyramids of Meroë: The Northern Cemetery: Where the Queens Rose https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe/ Photo credit The original uploader was Lassi at Hungarian Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. After a generation or two, the Kushite monarchy shifted its burial grounds north. The Northern Cemetery contains 41 known pyramids - the resting places of 30 kings, eight queens regnant, and three princes. That figure, eight ruling queens, is one of the most striking facts about ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/sepb-pyramids-of-mero-the-northern-cemetery-where-the-queens-rose.mp3 0:06 3 full Pyramids of Meroë: The Western Cemetery and a Longer Story https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe/ Photo credit Hans Birger Nilsen, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Western Cemetery holds the longest continuous record of Kushite death. Burials here began in the 9th century BCE and continued deep into the Meroitic period - more than 800 graves, at least 82 of them pyramids, none belonging to monarchs. This was where the court nobility wen...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/sepb-pyramids-of-mero-the-western-cemetery-and-a-longer-story.mp3 0:06 4 full Pyramids of Meroë: The Flood, and What Comes Next https://qualla.com/pyramids-of-meroe/ Photo credit Map created from DEMIS Mapserver, which are public domain. Koba-chan, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 8 September 2020, for the first time in recorded history, the Pyramids of Meroë were threatened by flood. A once-in-a-century rise of the Nile lapped at structures that had stood dry in the desert for two thousand years. Sudanese archaeologists built emergency sandbag barriers...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/p/b/pyramids-of-meroe-wp/sepb-pyramids-of-mero-the-flood-and-what-comes-next.mp3 0:06 5 full