@darkvault.mysteries: A lost kingdom's biggest church — buried in the desert. This week, archaeologists finally touched its floor. 😱 At Old Dongola, Sudan — once the capital of Makuria, a Christian kingdom on the Nile — diggers opened a monumental staircase and reached the original floor of the Great Church of Jesus for the first time. About 47 metres wide and 57 long, with walls beside the stairs still standing 11 metres high, it's the largest church known from medieval Nubia. The team thinks it may have stood around 21 metres high — but that's an estimate, not a measurement. Only a fraction is open so far, and the full plan and date are still unsettled. But tiny Greek letters on the walls — just half a centimetre tall — turned out to be biblical odes, new for this site. 🔍 One staircase down. A whole lost cathedral still to go. #DarkVault #Archaeology #Sudan #Nubia #UnsolvedMystery

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