Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

The design of the tomb was inspired by the pyramids of Egypt, reflecting the cultural fusion present in Rome after the ...

It was built in 15 BC in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations in Rome, Epulones. The tomb was ...

Truncated and with steep sides, the pyramids left by the long line of Nubian kings populate the desert near the site of Meroë. Rising high in the sky in the modern-day nation of Sudan is a ...

It’s here that the vast majority of the Nubian pyramids can be found, with roughly 200 of the pointy monuments having been erected in the ancient city’s necropolis from the third century BCE ...