Have you ever heard of going into an ancient pyramid without scuba gear? We didn’t either until we came across the story of Pearce Paul Creasman, an archaeologist. His story looks at an ancient race that was just as advanced as the Egyptians, lived on the same continent, and had a history and culture that were just as mysterious and rich.

Prepare yourself as the wealthiest explore the tomb of a pharaoh who once ruled the “kingdom of kush” underwater. Let’s back up a little bit and learn a little bit about pyramids before we get started on our story about pyramid diving. Before the advent of modern technology, enormous architectural marvels were constructed worldwide.

Ancient peoples used pyramids as monuments and tombs for the dead as well as places of worship. There are approximately 2,000 pyramids still standing in the world today, and they can be found on every continent, with the exception of the icy Antarctica. Of course, the Great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt, are the most well-known. The tallest is 455 feet tall. The antiquated Egyptians constructed these astounding designs as burial chambers and landmarks for their pharaohs.

Numerous ancient tribes in the Americas constructed step pyramids as temples for their gods. For example, the Mayans built the famous El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza, which is on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. It was constructed as a temple to Kukulkan, the serpent god.

In old Greece the Pyramid of hellinikon was assembled exactly 100 years sooner than the Incomparable Pyramids of Egypt, its motivation stays obscure. There is a great white pyramid in China called XI’AN. We don’t know much about it because the Chinese government has made it illegal to enter the structure. However, there is a rumor that it could be twice as tall as the Great Pyramid at Giza.

Despite a recent debunked story about one of the images, which turned out to be snow-covered pyramidal-shaped mountaintops, there are exactly zero possible pyramid sites on Antarctica. On the Australian continent, there are two possible but unconfirmed pyramid sites—the Gympie pyramid and Walsh’s pyramid.

Surprisingly, Sudan, Egypt’s neighbor to the south on the African continent, holds the record for the nation with the most intact pyramids. Two hundred and forty pyramids constructed by the ancient Cushite people can be found in Sudan. Sudan and the cushites likewise end up being at the focal point of our archeological story.

Shabti discovered in a Kushite pyramid’s submerged chamber.

The kingdom of kush, which was also known as Nubia, was in northeast Africa, just south of ancient Egypt, in what is now Sudan. It was closely associated with ancient Egypt. Along the Nile River and its two main tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, were its largest cities. It is likely that humans would not have settled in this dry desert region if it weren’t for the formation of these waterways and their proximity to deposits of iron ore and gold.

Over 1,400 years passed before the kush kingdom fell. It was first established around 1070 BCE, when Egypt won its independence. Kush took control of ancient Egypt in 727 BCE and remained in power until the Assyrians arrived in the following century.

The kingdom of Kush began to weaken after the Roman Empire conquered Egypt and eventually collapsed in the fourth century CE. In many ways, the ancient Cushite people shared a religion, a system of government, and many aspects of culture with the ancient Egyptians.

The tomb was covered in gold leaf.

They mummified their dead and buried them in pyramids as a form of worship to Egyptian gods. The priests, along with the Pharaoh and other rulers, made up the highest class in Kush. The Cushite religion, which strongly resembled that of their Egyptian neighbor, played a significant role in daily life.

The pyramids that the Cushite public worked to bury their pharaohs and other significant figures looked basically the same as the antiquated Egyptian designs. The average cushite pyramid stood approximately 6 to 30 meters, or 20 to 98 feet, taller than the typical Egyptian pyramid, which stood approximately 138 meters, or 453 feet, among other significant differences. There was also a significant difference between the Egyptians and the Kush: while Egyptian burial chambers were inside the pyramidal structure itself, Kush burial chambers were beneath the pyramids.

The Pharaoh Nastasen was one such leader who was buried in this matter. From 335 to 310 BCE, he ruled the kush kingdom. Writings on stone tablets and a few other artifacts provide the few details about this Nubian king that we do know about. According to the writings, the Pharaoh Nastasen’s victory over an Upper Egyptian invasion and numerous spoils was the crowning achievement of his rule.

Nastasen became the last cushites, King, to enter the afterlife and be buried in the royal cemetery and necropolis at Nepata. A wonderful burial ground spreading over more than seven and a half million square feet.

In the ancient city of Nepata, the royal cemetery is now in Karima, Sudan, which is about a mile west of the Nile River bank. An arc of twenty pyramids built between 650 BCE and 300 BCE is one of its most impressive features from the air. Public Geographics Kristin Romy portrays this curve of pyramids as a statement “hung together like diamonds on a fragile neckband”.

However, there are in excess of twenty pyramids at the site in general. There are hundreds of other people buried there, including at least sixty Nubian kings and queens. Pharaoh Taharqa, who ruled all of Egypt in the seventh century BCE, is the most well-known resident. The last pyramid tomb of its kind, the twenty-three hundred-year-old pyramid tomb of Pharaoh Nastasen is about thirty feet (9.1 meters) tall and was built at one of the royal necropolis’s lowest elevations.

One of the reasons Nastasen’s burial chambers are completely submerged is because of this. Why precisely? the pyramid’s closeness to the Nile Waterway joined with both regular and man-made environmental change has caused the groundwater levels to ascend throughout the long term. Submerging beneath the pyramids the burial chambers carved into the bedrock. Nastassin’s tomb is one of the most submerged because of its low elevation.

Enter Pearce Paul Creaseman, an archaeologist. Creaseman holds the double title of both Egyptologist and submerged paleontologist yes to be sure that is a thing, when Creasman originally visited the regal graveyard back in 2018 he saw his one of a kind range of abilities as a valuable chance to investigate the watery burial places and find more than whatever was at any point revealed when the site was first investigated almost 100 years back. Previously, the water was only knee-deep; today, it has reached the tomb chamber ceiling.

After spending the better part of a year digging the staircases to Nestasen’s tomb out of the sand, Creaseman and his team donned scuba gear and entered the murky waters. A series of three chambers had to be traversed by Creaseman. while navigating in water that was nearly impenetrable to vision and was thick with muddy sediment.

They found gold foil, shabti dolls, and funerary figures that the ancient Nubians believed would accompany the deceased into the afterlife when they reached the third and final chamber. The sarcophagus of Nastasen, the pharaoh, is also in the chamber. The main issue that roof high sloppy water makes exhuming and investigation of these antiquities profoundly dangerous. However, Creaseman is now brimming with experiences and anticipating the future with optimism.

They intend to return to the site later in 2020 in an effort to excavate the burial chamber in a bold and logistically challenging endeavor. The extent and value of the treasures in this pyramid, as well as possibly the dozens of others, will become clear only then. Says Christman ” I think we at long last have the innovation to have the option to recount the narrative of Nuri, to fill in the spaces of what occurred here. Because so few people are aware of it, it is a remarkable moment in history. a story should be told.” Would you, then, be willing to plunge into those murky waters in order to discover ancient treasures?