This civilization grew in power just as Egypt’s Middle Kingdom was in decline around 1785 B.C. By 1500 B.C., the Nubian empire roughly stretched from Wadi Halfa south to Meroë. Centered on its ...

The Nabta Playa civilization created sophisticated astronomical alignments in what is now Egypt's Nubian Desert between 7000-3400 BCE. In fact, their stone circle construction is considered to be ...

The Nubian Rest House, near Jebel Barkal ... including climate change-driven drought and famine and the rise of a rival civilization in the east, Aksum, in modern-day Ethiopia.

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University ...

On 8 March 1960, the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia was launched at UNESCO ... ‘Your appeal is historic…because through it the first world civilization publicly proclaims the ...