Here are some more images of Nubian Pyramids, all from Google Street View, at Meroe, in what is now Sudan. This represents the beginning of Ethiopian civilization. The predecessor kingdom to Ethiopia was called Kush, and is referenced in the Bible. Kushite pharaohs ruled Egypt for about a century. The name of Ethiopia comes from the Greek name for the area. Meroe is where the most visible Nubian Pyramids are but there were nearby places where pyramids were built before Meroe.
The Egyptian Pyramids are older, and certainly influenced, the Nubian Pyramids. But the Nubians built many more pyramids than the Egyptians. Nubia is not as well-known as Egypt, to it's north, but this is one of the world's great early civilizations.
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