Pyramid of King Senkamanisken

18.5348°N, 31.8342°E.

The pyramid of king Senkamanisken at Nuri, built for a Napatan ruler who reigned approximately 643–623 BCE in the second generation after the Assyrian expulsion of the Kushites from Egypt. Original base 21 metres per side; original height around 18 metres. Excavated by George Reisner in 1917. The substructure preserved a granite burial chamber, fragments of canopic jars naming the king, and a relief block from the offering chapel showing Senkamanisken offering before the falcon-headed god Horus. Senkamanisken's reign is the latest in which the Napatan court continued to use Egyptian hieroglyphs as its court script before the gradual transition to Meroitic; his inscriptions are bilingual in some cases. He fathered the next two kings, Anlamani and Aspelta, both also buried at Nuri.

A pyramid for one of the last Kushite kings to write his royal annals in Egyptian, in a cemetery whose later monuments would be inscribed in a script the Egyptians could not read.