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Nubian Pyramids

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Pyramids
• The site of Ancient Nubia (modern Sudan) has over 200 pyramids that exist today.
• Sudan has more pyramids than anywhere else in the world, including Egypt.
• Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini smashed the top of 40 of the Nubian pyramids while searching for gold and other hidden treasures.
• Nubian pyramids demonstrate the Nubians use of geometry as it would have been necessary to build such pyramids.
• Ancient Nubians were using a trigonometric methodology similar to the Egyptians to construct pyramids.
• Trigonometry is used in construction, astronomy, aviation, engineering, land surveying, geography and also taught in the NSW schooling curriculum.

The Nubian Meroitic Script
• The Nubian Meroitic script was the Nubians own numeral

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