A BEACON IN THE DESERT ON A 200-FOOT PINNACLE IN SUDAN, BOSTON ARCHAEOLOGIST FINDS A PHARAOH'S GILDED SHRINE

From: The Boston Globe | Date: September 14, 1987| Author: Gary Chafetz, Special to the Globe | Copyright information

Gary Chafetz is a freelance writer who lives in Cambridge. Since it was excavated 70 years ago by a Boston-based team, the complex of temples and steep-sided pyramids near Karima in northern Sudan has been known to scholars as the remains of Napata, a city founded by Egyptian pharaohs 3,500 years ago to mark the southern limit of their empire.

But since those first excavations at a spot hundreds of miles south of the awe-inspiring Egyptian pyramids and monuments at Giza, Luxo...

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