From Nubian Pyramids to Cave Art: Archaeological Sites You Should Know. Posted: June 24, 2025 | Last updated: June 24, 2025. Meroe, Copan, Hagar Qim, and Altamira showcase ancient pyramids ...

Archaeology Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest. ... a mother-of-pearl bracelet and Nubian and Egyptian pottery fragments. ...

Kendall first visited Napata in 1982, during a tour of Nubian archaeological sites sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he worked as an assistant curator. The museum boasts one of the ...

After Egypt’s 1952 revolution, President Gamal Abdel Nasser embraced plans for the Aswan High Dam, an earth-fill embankment 111 metres high and 3.5 kilometres long. Begun in 1960 with Soviet ...

Founded with a fortress in A.D. 600, it served as the capital of the medieval Nubian kingdom of Makuria and grew to include palaces, houses, and Christian churches.

4,500-year-old desert tombs reveal the health conditions of ancient Nubian civilization. These burials told our archaeological team about many aspects of life and death in this place millennia ago.

Brief synthesis . The Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae lie in the Governorate of Aswan. It is a serial property of ten component parts covering 374.48 ha: Abu Simbel, Amada, Wadi Sebua, ...

In 2014, the British Museum revealed the existence of the only other known Medieval Nubian tattoo — a marking found on the inner thigh tattoo of a woman living along the Nile around 655 to 775 CE.

Attendees gathered in the Hatcher Library Gallery Thursday, to the tunes of famous Nubian musician Hamza El Din, for a talk from William Carruthers, lecturer in heritage studies at the University of ...