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 ...

The story of the National Museum – taken over by armed men, its gold and valuables looted and stolen – mirrors the individual ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

DZ: I am a Nubiologist, as we call ourselves. I study the past of Nubia, the area south of Egypt, up to the modern capital of Sudan. Especially the late antique medieval period when Christianity ...

The Sudan National Museum (pictured here before it was looted) is home to important pieces from ancient Nubian civilisations [AFP] ...