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Hatem Al-Nur, director of the Sudan General Authority for Antiquities and Museums, said the floods the country is witnessing threaten two sites including the pyramids of Meroe and Nuri el Real, which are among the most important archaeological sites in the world. country.
Hatem Al-Nour added that the royal bath in Meroe, a basin that fills annually during the Nile flood season, is at risk due to unprecedented water levels, adding that crews have been working since Monday to protect the site from drowning.
He claimed that cemeteries located seven to ten meters below the pyramids in the city of Nuri, 350 kilometers north of Khartoum, were damaged by the rise in the water table.
In the same direction, the director of the French archaeological unit in Sudan, Marc May, told Agence France-Presse that the archaeological zone of Al-Bagrawiya, which was once the capital of the Meroitic Kingdom, is threatened by flooding due to the high Nile river level at a record level.
The French archaeologist reported that Sudanese antiquities inspectors built dams on the site with bags filled with sand and used pumps to draw water to prevent it from destroying this antiquity.
According to the French archaeologist, “it was never before the floods reached the royal city of El-Bajraweya, which is located 500 meters from the course of the Nile River.”
Mayo stressed that “the situation is currently under control”, warning that “if the level of the Nile continues to rise, the measures taken may not be sufficient.” He added that other archaeological sites are threatened by floods along the Nile.
The ancient city of Meroe is located on the eastern bank of the Nile, about 200 km northeast of the capital Khartoum.
Meroe was the capital of the Kush dynasty that ruled in the early 6th century BC and includes the Pyramids of Nuri, the Tomb of Taharqa, who ruled what is now Egypt and Sudan in the 7th century BC
Source: Agencies
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