Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own, ...

Archaeologists in Sudan unearthed the ruins of a massive medieval cathedral in Old Dongola, once the capital of the Nubian ...

The mysterious rulers of Nubia, in present-day Sudan, erected hundreds of tombs and temples that rival Cairo’s. A “haboob” (sandstorm) rolls across the Meroë pyramids in Sudan. Most of the 41 tombs ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Past studies of culture contact have often used the concepts of unidirectional modification of a subordinate population by a socially dominant ...

In the sixth century A. D. two Nubian kingdoms united. They were Nobadia (Nābādos) amd Makuria (al-Maqurra). Our knowledge of this merger comes from the tenth century traveler Ibn Salīm.

Painting of King David, Old Dongola, Sudan(Photo by Adrian Chlebowski/Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology/University of Warsaw) Painting of Virgin Mary, Old ...