The story starts about 5,000 years ago in the "Land of the Bow," when a jet-black people formed one of the first nation states in the world along the Nile, where women and men had equal rights and the ...

A 7,000-year-old ostrich egg discovered in Nubia features markings that some believe resemble the pyramids of Giza alongside what could be the Nile River. If true, it raises a major question: how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Jada Pinkett Smith’s ...

The archaeological site of Sedeinga is located in Sudan, a hundred kilometers to the north of the third cataract of the Nile, on the river's western shore. Known especially for being home to the ruins ...

THE middle of the 19th century was the heyday of Egyptology. Hieroglyphs had been deciphered and people could finally grasp the full richness of the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The pyramids, the ...

You may be surprised if you hear about someone using their vacation days on a trip to Sudan, and though the African country has been plagued by military conflict and violence, there's a lot of beauty ...

Quiet conversation and the whip of the felucca's single sail lull me into a peaceful state as we drift along the Nile near Aswan. We float past a temple dedicated to Ptah, god of the delta and ...