Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

Researchers examined the remains of 30 people (16 males and 14 females) buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery in Sudan. One ...

In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, the road divides the city. To the east is the royal cemetery, packed with close to 50 sandstone and red brick pyramids of varying heights ...

The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...

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

These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of ...

Saf's amazing poem takes us to the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient civilisation in Africa, just south of Ancient Egypt. It is often called Nubia and had two different capital cities - the first ...