The Nubian people, indigenous to southern Egypt and northern Sudan, have a unique heritage characterized by distinct ...

The skeletons were found buried in the ancient Abu Fatima cemetery in Nubia (now a region in Sudan). Of the 30 skeletons, 14 ...

The Penn Museum is currently undergoing its largest renovation in the museum’s history. The Penn Museum’s renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries are the second part of the Penn Museum’s ...

Found in a 7,000-year-old Nubian tomb, this engraved ostrich egg has puzzled archaeologists and history fans alike. Its ...

Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University ...

In ancient times, this area was known as Nubia or Kush. Following the Egyptians' takeover of the region around 1400 B.C., they established Tombos. "Shortly after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia ...

Being laid to rest in an Egyptian pyramid is traditionally assumed to have been an honour reserved for the wealthy nobility.

Tombos became an important center after the Egyptian conquest of Nubia around 1500 BCE, during the reign of Thutmose I, who ruled about 170 years before Tutankhamun. Ruins of at least five clay ...

When researchers examined skeletons buried in present-day Sudan, they found evidence that some had belonged to workers who ...

New research reveals that not only elites were buried in Egyptian pyramids—laborers may have rested there too.

A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in Omar Chakil's Transcendence series.

Nubian pyramids in the Sudan ... This region was under Egyptian control 3,500 years ago when the civilization was at its zenith, but by this time, their aristocracy no longer favored pyramids ...