Amid escalating military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to the country. "Due to armed conflict, civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and ...

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

Perhaps their grandest achievements are the more than 200 pyramids built at the necropolis at Meroë, giving Sudan more pyramids than all of Egypt. Tall, slender, graceful: These monuments bear ...

Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt, but its treasured archaeological heritage is increasingly under threat from its brutal civil war. "The militias are not far," said Khalid, referring to ...

In the conflict-ridden East African country of Sudan, the 2,000-year-old ... are 800 years older than the Egyptian pyramids and outnumber them, they were built on a smaller scale.

The question of who built the pyramids, and how, has long been debated by Egyptologists and historians. Standing at the base of the pyramids at Giza it is hard to believe that any of these ...

Every nation has its heroes, history and myths. In Sudan, the points of pride are literal. Our desert is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. These pyramids were built by the ...

Standing at the base of the Great Pyramid, it is hard to imagine that this monument—which remained the tallest building in the world until early in this century—was built in just under 30 years.

In Sudan, the points of pride are literal. Our desert is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. These pyramids were built by the rulers of the Nubian civilisation, ancient ...