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For centuries, a life-size petroglyph has stood over the rocky landscape of Miseeda in northern Sudan. Exactly who the figure carved into a granite hill represents remains uncertain, but researchers ...

Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt. Let that sink in for a moment. While the Great Pyramid of Giza commands global recognition and tourist pilgrimages by the millions, over 200 pyramids ...

Ask most people to picture a pyramid and they’ll describe Giza: the flat desert, the tour buses, the crowds jostling for a photo with a camel in the background. Yet a few hundred miles south, across ...

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When the world’s travellers think of monumental ancient masonry, the focus is almost entirely directed to the banks of the River Nile. But restricting the architectural range to North Africa entails ...

While working as a military surgeon in modern-day Sudan, the Italian-born Giuseppe Ferlini heard tales of gold hidden among the ancient ruins surrounding Meroe. He had taken up the post of surgeon ...

Ask most people to picture a pyramid and you get Giza: the broad golden slopes, the camels and the Sphinx. What you almost never get is Sudan, which sits directly to Egypt’s south and contains one of ...

Over the past 4,600 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has weathered a dozen or so major earthquakes. Most recently, the 5.9 magnitude Cairo earthquake of 1992 dislodged some casing stones from the ...