Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, the road divides the city. To the east is the royal cemetery, packed with close to 50 sandstone and red brick pyramids of varying heights ...

The area used to be the ancient kingdom of Kush. After analyzing the burials of the 30 individuals in the Abu Fatima cemetery, the team discovered that the women tended to have more wear on their ...

This is north of the cemetery but still within the kingdom of Kush. People in modern times still use tumplines. The practice is "still alive today in rural regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin ...

The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...

These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of ...

Saf's amazing poem takes us to the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient civilisation in Africa, just south of Ancient Egypt. It is often called Nubia and had two different capital cities - the first ...

These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of ...