"Make her be served a good meal."

A necropolis of the ancient kingdom of Kush, neighbour to the Egyptian kingdom, appears to have a hybrid of two styles: the local tradition of circular tumulus construction and Egyptian pyramids. These densely packed gravesites vary in size, and one even has a tablet wishing grandma good meals in the afterlife. The combination of cultures here is interesting.

From Live Science. The Kushite necropolis.

The inner circles of these pyramids offer no structural support, leading the authors to suggest they come from a local style. They say that only one pyramid outside of the Sedeinga site follows this style. Having just completed the monument analysis project and thinking about our modern grave-markers and their susceptibility to style, I can't help but see this necropolis in the same terms. I can imagine wealthy Kushites influenced by the Egyptians, perhaps wanting those powerful pyramids to reflect their own wealth. Eventually, the style becomes so popular that even a child is buried next to a 30-inch wide pyramid and Sedeinga is suddenly a dense graveyard of tumulus-pyramid hybrid monuments.

The few artifacts described in the article make this seem more like an ancient graveyard than an ominous-sounding necropolis. Offerings for grandma, prayers to Isis, Osiris, and Anubis on behalf of loved ones; they don't sound much different than Ronald Kendrick's gravestone at St. Luke's cemetery. I hope we find more sites like Sedeinga.