This route connected the Kingdom of Kush directly with Middle Egypt, suggesting that Sedeinga may have been a trade settlement.

[1] The pyramids were constructed of stone block over a round masonry chamber symbolic of the older Kush tradition of earthen burial mounds.

While it was considered sacrilegious for anyone but royalty to be buried in this manner during the early Meroitic period, with the passing of time and the isolation of Sedeinga from Meroë, the tradition extended to the wealthy.

The Sedeinga pyramids also exhibited a greater Egyptian influence than their counterparts in Meroë, typified by capstones depicting birds or lotuses emerging from solar discs.

The stone inscriptions constitute the largest collection of texts ever discovered written in Meroitic, which one of the oldest known writing systems of Africa.