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 ...

Amazingly, Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt — but why? Who built the Sudan pyramids? Did the Egyptians influence the ...

possibly derived from an ancient Egyptian word for gold, which was plentiful; and Kush, the kingdom that dominated the region between roughly 2500 B.C. and A.D. 300. In some religious traditions ...

Researchers examined the remains of 30 people (16 males and 14 females) buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery in Sudan. One ...

Built by the ancient Kingdom of Kush, these overlooked monuments tell the story of a powerful African empire that rivaled its ...

"At its height, the Kushite Empire stretched from the confluence of the Nile rivers to the Mediterranean Sea," he wrote in an article on The Conversation. Kush, a "central player in the ancient ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...