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

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.

Located in the desert sands near the Nile in modern Sudan, the ancient culture of Nubia played a decisive role in shaping Egypt from the eighth century B.C., serving as that kingdom’s 25th ...

Christianity spread South from the North of Egypt to Nubia (modern day Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan) some two hundred years after the collapse of the powerful Nile Valley kingdom of Meroe in ...

Greece and Rome—but never that of ancient Nubia, the region surrounding the Nile River between Aswan in southern Egypt and Khartoum in central Sudan. Seeing the documentary pushed me to read as ...

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

Their fleet of river cruisers travel the Nile between Luxor and Aswan, or explore the Lower Nubia on Lake Nasser. Use the Moevenpick Nile Cruises cruise schedule calendar below to find a ...

Four sites in Nubia -Wadi Karagan, Awandi ... Stone Age Sites on the Sudanese Nile. Many thanks to Carlson for his work on these archaeological sites, for his determination in completing the project ...

Researchers have located laborers beneath a pyramid in Tombos, Sudan, revealing burial was more inclusive in ancient Egypt ...