Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own, creating a distinctive, visual style. Truncated and with steep sides, the pyramids left by the long line of Nubian kings populate the desert ...

For a long time, archaeologists have thought that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the rich and elite. However, ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

On 10 October, the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, sentenced 10 Egyptian Nubian men to prison terms ranging between 10 to 18 years following a grossly unfair trial for ...

But this approach ignores the emergence further south on the Nile of the kingdom known to the Egyptians as Kush, in the region called Nubia - the area now covered by southern Egypt and Northern Sudan.

Researchers have located laborers beneath a pyramid in Tombos, Sudan, revealing burial was more inclusive in ancient Egypt ...

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An international team of researchers has conducted a detailed analysis of the physical activity of the ancient inhabitants of Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial city in Nubia. The findings, ...

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University ...

Nubia is a community whose ancestral home is Sudan and Egypt. The Nubians later moved to many other countries, including Kenya and Uganda. The majority are Muslim and tend to live in small ...