Pyramid of King Taharqa

18.5350°N, 31.8340°E.

The pyramid of king Taharqa at Nuri, the largest pyramid in the Sudanese royal cemetery and the burial place of the most famous of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Black pharaohs, who ruled both Kush and Egypt from approximately 690 to 664 BCE. Original base 51.75 metres per side; original height 50 metres at a 60° slope. Taharqa was the first Kushite king to be buried in a pyramid rather than the earlier Napatan tumulus tradition — an architectural choice that reasserted the Kushite kings' identity as legitimate inheritors of the Egyptian pharaonic line. The substructure preserved a vaulted granite burial chamber, fragmentary canopic jars, and the remains of a wooden sarcophagus. Excavated by George Reisner in 1917. The Bible (2 Kings 19:9) records Taharqa's military campaign in Judea against Sennacherib's Assyrians as the catalyst for the lifting of the siege of Jerusalem.

The largest pyramid in Sudan, built for a king whose military campaign saved Jerusalem, named in the Hebrew Bible by his throne name in three places.