The Nubian people, indigenous to southern Egypt and northern Sudan, have a unique heritage characterized by distinct ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series on Ancient Civilizations with an in-depth look at how ...

The skeletons were found buried in the ancient Abu Fatima cemetery in Nubia (now a region in Sudan). Of the 30 skeletons, 14 ...

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

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 ...

Being laid to rest in an Egyptian pyramid is traditionally assumed to have been an honour reserved for the wealthy nobility.

It seems plausible that the beginning of the settlement of the children of Israel in the eastern Nile Delta—dated to ...

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

In ancient times, this area was known as Nubia or Kush. Following the Egyptians' takeover of the region around 1400 B.C., they established Tombos. "Shortly after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia ...

When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who ...

Tombos became an important center after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia around 1500 BCE, during the reign of Thutmose I, who ruled about 170 years before Tutankhamun. Ruins of at least five clay ...