El-Kurru
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Royal Cemetery and Burial Chamber of the tomb of Tanutamani
(Pharaoh of Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt. His praenomen or royal name was Bakare which means “Glorious is the Soul of Re”)
El-Kurru was one of the royal cemeteries used by the Nubian royal family. Most of the pyramids date to the early part of the Kushite period, from Alara of Nubia (795 – 752 BC) to King Nastasen (335 – 315 BC)