The pyramids at Meroë are the last remaining structures of a trading city that stood at the capital of the Kingdom of Kush. Discover its history here.

Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a necropolis for the kings and queens of Kush for close to 600 years. ... In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, ...

Explore the Great City of Meroe, third and last capital of the Ancient Kingdom of Kush. In the middle of the fourth century, Axumite armies forged their way inland along the Nile Valley, invading ...

The Kingdom of Kush was located on the Nile in a region called Nubia, in what are now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. The region was ruled by Egypt until about 1070 B.C., when the Kushites ...

It gave rise to one of Africa’s earliest civilizations, the Kingdom of Kush, whose kings—nicknamed the Black Pharaohs—conquered Egypt in 747 B.C. and ruled the vast territory for nearly a ...

Sudan’s pyramids are the legacy of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient superpower that flourished between 800 BCE and 350 CE in ...

But later in the kingdom’s history the taboo was relaxed somewhat, and a few wealthy people were allowed to erect monuments for themselves. But their pyramids never rivaled the royals’ in size.

The Kingdom of Meroe began to fade as a power by the first or second century AD, sapped by war with Roman Egypt and the decline of its traditional industries.

THE ruins of the Meroë were noticed so long ago as 1772 by the famous traveller James Bruce; but his identification was not generally accepted, and it was not until three years ago that Prof ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only ...