Pyramid of King Nastasen

18.5343°N, 31.8348°E.

The pyramid of king Nastasen at Nuri, built for the last Kushite ruler to be buried at this cemetery, who reigned approximately 335–310 BCE. Original base approximately 17 metres per side; original height around 14 metres. Excavated by George Reisner in 1917. The substructure preserved a granite burial chamber, fragmentary funerary equipment, and grave goods including imported Mediterranean glass and faience — evidence of trade contact with the Hellenistic world that had emerged in Egypt under the Ptolemies in the same generation. Nastasen's reign is documented on the Nastasen Stela now in the Berlin Museum, a 1.5-metre granite inscription describing his coronation, royal visits to the major Kushite temples, and a military campaign against an invader recorded as Kambasawden — long argued to be a reference to Cambyses II of Persia, though the chronology does not fit and the identification remains disputed.

The last king buried at Nuri before the royal cemetery shifted south to Meroë for the next six centuries of Kushite history.