MY FIRST TIME VISITING A TOMB and SEEING THE HIEROGLYPHS IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE
The day started with me being picked up from my hotel accommodation in Khartoum and then we departed northward. We took about a six hour drive across the Western Desert to catch sight of Jebel Barkal, ("Jebel" means mountain in Arabic) an imposant landmark in the desert. We stopped in the ancient village of El Kurru, where there is one of the necropolises of the ancient capital, Napata. Here we visited several tombs, which is excavated in the rock under pyramid - partially collapsed - and that is totally decorated with images of the Pharaoh, of the gods and multicolour hieroglyphic inscriptions. There are many more tombs nearby that have yet to be excavated.
