After the Nubian pharaohs lost power, they retreated south from Egypt to form the Kingdom of Kush, which thrived in splendid isolation as the rest of Egypt suffered through repeated invasions from ...

Surprisingly, Sudan holds that title, with more pyramids than its northern neighbor! Tucked away in the vast deserts of Sudan ...

They served as tombs for the rulers of Kush, known as the Black Pharaohs, who controlled vast parts of the Nile Valley from around 747 BC. Unlike in Egypt, where pharaohs were buried inside ...

He was the fourth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt ... which records a southern campaign against the Kush people, according to the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology.