The residents of Sudan were the most prolific pyramid builders, constructing between 200 and 255 pyramids, compared to their ...

ONE hundred and ten years ago this Christmas, the lifesaving actions of a St Helens sea captain were being heavily praised, writes ...

Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood Since a French explorer first described the cemetery at Meroe in the early ...

Albin (Al) Albert Dolezal was born May 3, 1927 on a farm near Clarkson, Neb. He was the fourth of seven children of Albert and Anna (Hanzl) Dolezal.

India’s Great Nicobar megaproject threatens indigenous languages, ecology, and survival. A hidden linguicide unfolds amid “development.” Read why it matters now.

Did Buddhism exist in Upper Egypt and the Lower Meroitic Empire? The answer appears to be yes. It was in Memphis that English Egyptologist and archaeologist W. M. Flinders Petrie found evidence of ...

The structure "M 294" was first interpreted as a palace building. Garstang did not excavate the whole complex, but found a cachette with many high quality objects, mainly belonging to the Napatan ...

Africa has had her fair share of inspiring queens, from women who led armies into battle to those that built empires to rival that of the Egyptians. The Kingdom of Kush, modern-day Sudan and Nubia, ...

These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic (270 BC to 350 AD) cultures, of the second kingdom of ...