The rising waters of the Nile threaten to overwhelm an ancient archaeological site in Sudan after some of the highest river grades ever recorded, archaeologists said Monday.
Teams have erected sandbag walls and pumped water to save it in the ruins of al-Bajrawiya, once the royal city of the two-thousand-year-old Meroic Empire, said Marc Maillot, head of the French Archaeological Antiquities Unit. Sudan is a service.
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“Flooding had never affected the above,” Maillot said.
It includes the pyramids of Meroe, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Farmers along the fertile banks of the Nile, the world’s longest river, in its annual floods.
But water grades have risen much higher than at the same age this year.
Tourists take from the royal cemeteries of the pyramids of Meroe in Begrawiya, Nile state. (Reuters)