Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

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 ...

Monastic Burial Site in Sudan Revealed Rare Christian Tattoo on the Bones of a Mummified Nubian The medieval monastic site of ...

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 ...

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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

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 ...

As such, the Medieval Nubian tattoos found in Sudan should be viewed within a broader cultural context. In remarks to Hyperallergic, University of California, Los Angeles historian of Ancient ...

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 ...