The war in Sudan has killed an estimated 150,000 people and pushed 10 million into exile. The Sudan National Museum, opened more than 50 years ago, houses objects rescued from an area flooded by ...

Antiquities directors and curators share their personal stories of the chaos and looting that have devastated their lives and ...

Sudan has two UNESCO world heritage sites: Meroe Island, home to one of the largest ancient pyramid complexes in Africa, and Jebel Barkal, a sacred sandstone mountain close to tombs, temples and ...

Less than a month into Sudan’s civil war, which began in 2023, videos surfaced of militants inside the National Museum’s bioarchaeology laboratory boasting that they had found corpses of ...

UNESCO is deeply concerned about the recent reports of possible looting and damage of several museums and heritage institutions in Sudan, including the National Museum, by armed groups. The ...

Outside the museum I meet Nazar Jahin, a tour guide and member of Artina (“Our Art”), a student group organized during the 2019 protests to support Sudan’s struggling cultural institutions.

The Sudan National Museum, for instance, has sustained damaged to two structures containing the ancient Egyptian temple of Buhen and a wall from the ancient Egyptian temple of Aksha. The Sudan ...

Sudan was home to some of Africa’s earliest human settlements, dating back to as early as 8,000BC, by which time it was already producing “exquisitely decorated” pottery, Badawi said.

A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5,000 years ago. Why was it forgotten? Text by Isma'il Kushkush; Photographs by Matt Stirn Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a ...

PARIS — Agatha Christie could have invented the story. Imagine another Egypt, with a marked black African component. This is Meroe, in present-day Sudan. In art, ancient Egyptian deities appear ...