THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN •Nothing of the pyramid now remains, but the space of ground which it occupied is well-defined, and its foundations went down to the bed-rock ; the rock was, in fact, scarped to receive them. It is interesting to note that here, as at Nuri and Tankasi, there stood one pyramid larger than any other on the field, and it seems as if, in each case, the builder of the largest pyramid was the first to occupy the site, and that the other smaller pyramids mark the graves of his kinsfolk and chief officials. The clearance which has been made of the great pyramid at Kurru is most FLAN OF THE TYRAMIDS OF KURRU.

[From Lepsius, Denkm'dler, Abth I. HI. laa.

complete, and suggests that it was effected not by mere filchers of stones for building purposes, but as the result of a determination, either political or religious, to make the whole pyramid disappear.

It is important to note that the rock on which its foundations rested is scarped, for it proves that the earliest pyramid builders in the Sudan copied the works of Egyptian pyramid architects and masons in every particular.

A few miles to the south-west of the pyramid field of Kurru are the remains of nearly two-score pyramids, which must have 126