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 ...

Meroe, Copan, Hagar Qim, and Altamira showcase ancient pyramids, megalithic temples, and prehistoric art that reflect the diversity of past societies.

The 3,500-year-old pockmarked skeleton of an ancient Nubian woman could be one of the earliest known cases of rheumatoid arthritis in the world, scientists say.

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 ...

A depiction of the Nubian crocodile god Ptiris was scratched into a colonnade outside the Isis temple by some of the last priests who practiced traditional Egyptian religion in Philae’s temples.

The analysis of isotopes in teeth reveals the health conditions and childhood locations of inhabitants of the ancient Nubian civilization.

These mighty pyramids were built by one of Africa’s earliest civilizations The mysterious rulers of Nubia, in present-day Sudan, erected hundreds of tombs and temples that rival Cairo’s.

During his talk, Carruthers spoke on the construction of the Aswan High Dam and its subsequent impact on Nubian people living in and near Aswan, Egypt. The lecture event was part of the U-M Humanities ...

This region, inhabited by the Nubian people, was the home of one of the earliest civilizations in ancient Africa thousands of years ago.

This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, which were saved from the rising waters of the ...

Desertification can wear down ancient ruins or hide them under dunes—leaving researchers scrambling to keep track of where they’re buried.