A local guide offers camel rides to tourists and visitors.

Locals offer camel rides to tourists and visitors. Here they wait for clients under the hot sun.

The royal pyramids at Meroe were built in Nubia 800 years after the Egyptians finished building theirs.

The royal pyramids at Meroe were built in Nubia 800 years after the Egyptians finished building theirs.

These the Meroe pyramids are among the best preserved in Sudan.

There are more than 230 pyramids in Sudan, stretching across the ancient Nubian kingdom.

The pyramids are the burial site for more than 40 Nubian kings and queens

Through the years the pyramids have been plundered of all their wealth.

Some pyramids have been partially restored, looking new in comparison with their neighbours.

Excavation of the pyramids began only in the middle of the 19th century.

Through the years, the pyramids have been plundered of all their wealth.

The pyramids get their name from the ancient city of Meroe, the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient African kingdom situated in what is now the Republic of Sudan.

Renewed restoration and preservation efforts are under way. Still, visitors leave their mark, etching their names into bricks.

Renewed restoration and preservation efforts are under way. Still, visitors leave their mark, etching their names into bricks.

Between 1800 and 1870, Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini smashed the top of 40 pyramids to get to their treasure.

'This is our history. Here our ancestors are buried,' said Abdullah who lives in Al Tarabil village, a few kilometres away from the site of the pyramids.

What the Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini discovered after smashing the top of 40 pyramids was taken back to British and German museums.

The pyramids are located northeast of Sudan near the river Nile.