The burial zone is located towards the southwest of the sacred mountain. It consists of three small clusters of graves, mainly pyramids of the Meroitic period belonging to kings, queens and princes. The dating of the pyramids comprises a period that stretches from IV BC to II AD. In the early XX century, Reisner excavated 25 pyramids in this area and formalized what was already registered by the first explorers, i.e. the fact that the pyramids were apparently gathered in two groups called the North and South group.
Between 1995 and 1996 the Spanish mission that worked in Jebel Barkal, discovered a new group of burials. A small cluster in which the finding of two new pyramids stands out, one of them with decoration remains. This third group of tombs has been named the West group, following the classification of Reisner.
