Puzzle 10 · October 21, 2026 · Places & landmarks · level hard

Pyramids of Meroë: would you have recognised it under the tiles?

This photo was Unvil’s mystery photo of the day. It was fully hidden under a mosaic of tiles: every close word knocked some down until the answer, “Pyramids of Meroë”， was found.

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Two very steep-sided pyramids half buried by orange sand dunes. — Pyramids of Meroë · Photo : Laurent de Walick, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pyramids of Meroë in a few words

Royal necropolis of the Kingdom of Kush (c. 300 BC – AD 350): about 200 Nubian pyramids, smaller and steeper than Egypt’s, in the desert near Meroë, Sudan.

The hints

This site is in Africa.
They are not the ones everybody thinks of.
They were built for the kings and queens of the Kingdom of Kush.
They stand near the Nile, north of Khartoum.

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