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

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 ...

Sudan’s pyramids are the legacy of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient superpower that flourished between 800 BCE and 350 CE in ...

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, as its tourism ministry is always keen to point out, and in the ancient royal burial site of Nuri many Nubian pharaohs were laid to rest. There's only one ...

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

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid tombs.

Matt Stirn I first learned of Sudan’s extraordinary pyramids as a boy ... Greece and Rome—but never that of ancient Nubia, the region surrounding the Nile River between Aswan in southern ...

For centuries, scientists believed that only the elite were buried in pyramids ... located in modern-day Sudan, bordering Egypt. Around 3,500 years ago, the ancient town of Tombos sat along the Nile ...

"Shortly after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia, Tombos was constructed by ... The findings were only focussed on the pyramids in Sudan, and whether or not the same applied to the pyramids in ...

Since Khartoum’s recapture from paramilitary groups, curators have learned that the damage left behind is worse than anyone thought ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the ... In ancient times, this area was known as Nubia or Kush. Following the Egyptians' takeover of the region around 1400 ...

Researchers made the finding in Sudan after analzying the remains of 30 people (14 females and 16 males) buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery. One, an elite woman who was around 50 years old ...