An amazing underwater expedition is revealing more about the “Black Pharaohs” of Sudan and Egypt. Think about pyramids, and Egypt comes to mind. The great pyramids of Giza in Egypt are well known, but the country of Sudan actually has more pyramids. It boasts many more known royal burials in the pyramids at Nuri, a sprawling ancient necropolis. It covers over one hundred and seventy acres where the Nile River snakes around not far from the Egyptian border to the north and the Red Sea to the east.
Unfortunately, with the tombs so close to the Nile, the rising water table has caused some of them to flood, and those have become almost impossible to visit. Thanks in part to the National Geographic Society’s financial assistance, Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, an archeologist specializing in Egyptology and Sudanese history at the University of Arizona has been able to enter the Kush King Nastasen’s underwater tomb – one of the “Black Pharaohs”.
When Creasman and his dive partner, Kristin Romey of National Geographic swam into the first chamber it was fully under water. The collapsed roof of the second chamber allowed some airspace before they went through a small doorway to the third chamber which holds the submerged stone sarcophagus.
When Creasman and his dive partner, Kristin Romey of National Geographic swam into the first chamber it was fully under water. The collapsed roof of the second chamber allowed some airspace before they went through a small doorway to the third chamber which holds the submerged stone sarcophagus.
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