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Nuri Pyramids Expedition
The pyramid of King Aspelta, successor (and brother) of Anlamani, who died around 580 B.C.
National Geographic editor Kristin Romey sets up equipment in the second chamber of pharaoh Nastasen's tomb.
Archaeologists found fragments of gold foil that once covered figurines which have dissolved in the waters of Nastasen’s tomb.
A diver holds a shabti—a small magical figurine tasked with tending to the pharaoh's needs in the afterlife—discovered in Nastasen's tomb.
A view of the royal Nubian necropolis at Nuri, with the pyramid of King Siaspiqa (r. 487–468 B.C.) in the centre foreground.
In order to access the tomb of pharaoh Nastasen, archaeologists had to excavate the processional staircase that leads to the burial chambers deep below his pyramid at Nuri.
Assistant director Abagail Breidenstein examines a niche in the wall of Nastasen's third burial chamber.