Pyramids that aren't in Egypt but are just as spectacular
The Nubian pyramids in eastern Sudan are lesser-known (and far smaller) than the great pyramids of Giza but no less remarkable. Located some 125 miles (200km) northeast of modern-day Sudanese capital Khartoum
Over the centuries, the former royal city and ancient cemetery, now an UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been plundered of its wealth and left to ruin.
Sudan is home to more than twice the number of pyramids in Egypt, so it's not just the area and city of Meroë where you'll find amazing ancient feats of engineering
Rising above the burnt-red sands, the flat-topped Jebel Barkal mountain, or Pure Mountain, represented the home of the Egyptian god Amon and the sprawling pyramids here date back to the Meroitic era (270 BC to AD 350).
The archaeological site of El-Kurru in northern Sudan is one of the most important of ancient Nubia as its pyramid cemetery, built as a royal resting place for kings of the Napatan dynasty
With a base of around 720 by 760 feet (220 by 230m), the Pyramid of the Sun is famed for being the world’s third-largest pyramid.
Hidden among the Peten rainforest of northern Guatemala, the pyramids of Tikal were built between AD 300 and 900. Along with some 4,000 structures, they make up what was once the ancient Mayan city known as Yax Mutal