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 ...

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

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.

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

Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Penn Museum is allowing private events to be held in an expansive space for a short time, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Penn Museum is currently undergoing its largest renovation in the museum’s history. The Penn Museum’s renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries are the second part of the Penn Museum’s ...

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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 ...