Amazingly, Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt — but why? Who built the Sudan pyramids? Did the Egyptians influence the ...

For a long time, archaeologists have thought that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the rich and elite. However, some […] ...

New research reveals that not only elites were buried in Egyptian pyramids—laborers may have rested there too.

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...

When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who performed hard labor ...

Tombos was constructed by the Egyptians in what was Nubian territory to facilitate colonial control," the team wrote in the study. Wealthy individuals were buried in tombs with small pyramids atop ...

For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t fit this pattern ...

A collapsed statue in the ancient Egyptian city of Tombos in Nubia, now Sudan. Credit ... Illustrating examples of tumulus and pyramid burial structures). Credit: S. Schrader et al. In contrast, ...

Scientists previously believed that pyramids were exclusive tombs ... Tombos became an important center after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia around 1500 BCE, during the reign of Thutmose I ...