How about a tour of beautiful Nubian pyramids? See what a drone did

We humans can hardly stand the scorching heat that plagues the desert regions of Egypt. Capturing materials from the pyramids is an arduous task, but not for a drone. The National Geographic team sent one of them for a tour of the Nubian pyramids. You can also check out temples and other places scattered throughout the Sudanese desert. This is what you see in the beautiful tour of the video above.

One of the most striking points is a burial chamber of a Nubian king who conquered Egypt in 715 BC. The material was captured by one of the National Geographic engineers Alan Turchik, who remotely controls a quadcopter-shaped drone across the site. to gain a broad perspective of the area and deliver the promising material.

“The best part about the helicopter is that it can fly around the site and show this connection between all the burial chambers, between the pyramid and the temple, and let us understand how this is all from above, ” said Turchik.

The engineer is part of an expedition led by a National Geographic grantee, Geoff Emberling, the first archaeologist to visit the site in El Kurru, Sudan in nearly a century.

High end equipment and a lot of planning

In order for the drone to do its work and have add-ons on its captures, it naturally needs to have a backup. On the ground, Emberling uses more cutting-edge technology: a remotely controlled robot to dig holes never explored by modern humans. Together with the drone, the robot captures other angles and visits inhospitable places dominated by sand and boulders.

After removing more than 250 tons of rubble from the site - yes, 250 tons - the team found several millennial artifacts. "You never know for sure what happened in the past, and just being able to investigate it ... is something detective, " Turchik said, explaining how excavations revealed striking mysteries about ancient Nubian cultures.

The National Geographic video offers a whole new perspective on the pyramids, which have proven themselves time-tested thanks to architectural conservation in the Sudanese desert for over 3, 000 years.

Via TecMundo.