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 ...

Truncated and with steep sides, the pyramids left by the long line of Nubian kings populate the desert near the site of Meroë. Rising high in the sky in the modern-day nation of Sudan is a ...

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, as its tourism ministry is always keen to point out, and in the ancient royal burial site of Nuri many Nubian pharaohs were laid to rest. There's only one ...

Matt Stirn I first learned of Sudan’s extraordinary pyramids as a boy ... from the “west” bank—typically associated with sunset and death—that ancient Egyptians believed was the source ...

Tombs, with and without pyramids, temples, living complexes and palaces, are to be found on the site. Since Antiquity, the hill of Gebel Barkal has been strongly associated with religious traditions ...

Many came from the Napatan era in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C., when pharaohs from Sudan ruled over much of ancient Egypt, or from the later Meroitic kingdom that built pyramids in Sudan.

However, a study has now found that the pyramids in Egypt and Sudan might also hold the remains of the poor. Scientists studied the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan and found that "pyramid ...

The Sudanese Minister of Information, Ahmed Bilal Othman, claimed on Sunday that the Meroë Pyramids of Sudan are 2,000 years older than Egypt's pyramids. The Sudanese government is working to ...