Bronze figurehead of a goddess, Kawa, Sudan, 3rd century BC - The Trustees of the British Museum One of the most famous objects in the British Museum is a bronze head of the Roman emperor Augustus ...
Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos in northern Sudan. They reveal tumuli — the underground burial tombs used at least as far back as 2500 B.C. by ...
FILE - In this June 28, 2013 file photo, the Blue Nile river flows near the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethopia. Two days of negotiations between top officials from ...
Michele R. Buzon receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. The Sudan National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums permits her archaeological ...
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 necropolis ...