The Famous Ancient Tombs of El-Kurru in Sudan.
📷: Robbie Shone.
El-Kurru - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Kurru
@JonathanMBR Pretty neat, Egyptian style too. Looking at the map, that isn't really surprising either as they border Egypt. Nifty! Must've had some history together in the past!
@mur2501
The ancient Egyptian kingdom was the rival to Nubian kingdom and Ethiopian kingdom, there were number of kingdoms in that particular region of North and east africa, they were totally different kingdoms with different systems, although Nubian had one with common with Egyptians, pyramids @trinsec
@mur2501
there was kingdom of Kush in present day Sudan southern Egypt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush
@mur2501
Look this list of Kush monarch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Kush
@JonathanMBR Oh wait, I remember something! I was watching either Discovery Channel or National Geographic (probably the latter).
They actually had a whole programme about the black pharaoh who ruled over ancient Egypt and uh.. Nubia or something, which I'd think is probably modern day Sudan. (Would make sense, seeing the map).
It was a pretty interesting programme to watch, he was apparently a smart and good king. Further details elude me, unfortunately. But at least I know there was at least a black pharaoh who ruled over a fairly big area in ancient history. :)
@JonathanMBR Oh, right, the whole programme was because there were archaeologists who discovered his tomb that was hidden for so long.
This is Mur 
@trinsec @JonathanMBR
Nubia refers to Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan.
@mur2501 Ah, thanks! Sounds about right. I'll just have to believe you. :D The king was said to have ruled for quite a while too.
Egyptians in general weren't exactly black. Black people were used as slaves there. So it was fairly impressive that there was a black pharaoh who ruled over Ancient Egypt for a while.
@trinsec
The Nubian pyramids were built before even the neighboring Egypt was conquered by Arabs, when Egypt was invaded by Arabs from Middle East, pyramids were centuries old.
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@JonathanMBR
The ancient Egyptian kingdoms streched all the way down to Somalia. Elephants were loaded on ships from the ports of Southern India, and brought to the ports in Somalia. The caravan would travel through Sudan to reach the North coast of Egypt. These elephants were used as machine of wars.