A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has revealed fresh evidence about the workforce behind the construction of ...

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Before the emergence of the Kerma Culture in the Bronze Age, the Pre-Kerma Culture thrived between 3700 and 3250 BCE, marked by unique burial practices including the Speos, a temple or tomb carved ...

Pyramids constructed by the Kushites, also known as Nubian Pyramids. Three of the pyramids shown here were reconstructed. Credit: Wufei07 / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons The Kushite kings of Egypt ...

Yes, you heard it right! The ancient Kingdom of Kush built more than twice as many pyramids as Egypt and they are located in Sudan’s vast deserts. Sudan’s pyramids represents the legacy of a ...

Constructed by the ancient Kushite kingdoms’ leaders, the Nubian pyramids are located in Nubia, in what is present-day Sudan. Built of sandstone and granite, the pyramids are believed to have been ...

One of National Geographic's writers describes her experience scuba diving underneath a pyramid—and how its contents could fundamentally change what we understand about ancient Egypt’s 25th ...

The vast majority of the Nubian pyramids can be found here, with roughly 200 of the pointy monuments erected in the ancient city’s necropolis from the third century BC onwards. Among these are ...

The Nubian Pyramids served as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroe, ancient cities of the Kushite empire that flourished from 800 B.C. to 350 A.D. While not as large or well-known as ...