
Studying pyramids in Sudan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
As an Egyptologist who has worked on excavations at the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt (with Cairo University & Brown University) and a site adjacent to the Royal Pyramids of Meroe in Sudan, I really can’t get enough of pyramids. So I read with great interest recently that Derek Welsby, a curator at the British Museum, and his team uncovered the
remains of 16 pyramids with tombs underneath in a cemetery near the ancient town of Gematon in Sudan…