The Nubian pyramids were constructed (roughly 220 of them) at three sites in modern day Sudan. Nubia was known to the Egyptians as Kush. During the Middle Kingdom, its principal town was Kerma, which lies just below the Third Cataract of the Nile River. During Egypt&#x27;s New Kingdom, the empire period, Nubia was for the most part a province of Egypt, ruled by the &quot;King&#x27;s Son of Kush&quot;