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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...