Antiquities directors and curators share their personal stories of the chaos and looting that have devastated their lives and ...

The Sudan Armed Forces has postured as a guardian of Sudanese sovereignty. But in fact it is a relic of a past ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meroe Pyramids in Sudan. (Image: Getty) When someone thinks of pyramids, Egypt springs to mind straight away. And that’s unsurprising considering how big of a tourist attraction it’s become.

Sudan is an archaeological treasure trove, with evidence of human life dating back 1.6 million years. Its landscape is dotted with ancient tombs, pyramids, temples, palaces and burial mounds, many ...

Meroe lies around 200 kilometres (120 miles) northeast of Sudan's capital Khartoum and was the last capital of Kush, also called Nubia, an ancient kingdom centered on the confluence of the Blue Nile, ...

Culture, Africa Sudan's enduring pyramids shine light on history amid conflict More than 200 pyramids discovered in ancient city of Meroe Gokhan Kavak and Ahmed Satti | 18.01.2025 - Update : 20.01 ...

Sudan is home to many treasures and historical landmarks. But tourism has stopped and relics in its national museum have been raided and sold by a paramilitary group hell-bent on conquering the ...

These once-thriving cities, located in present-day Egypt, Sudan, and Mali, slipped into obscurity, their splendor remaining lost to history until modern times, when archaeologists made some ...

Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt, but its treasured archaeological heritage is increasingly under threat from its brutal civil war. Meroë, a city on the banks of the Nile and once the ...

Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt, but its treasured archaeological heritage is increasingly under threat from its brutal civil war. "The militias are not far," said Khalid, referring to ...