Long before ancient Egyptians swaddled their pharaohs in balm-and-resin-soaked linens and placed them in treasure-bedecked tombs, their more egalitarian predecessors were using essentially the ...

Pharaohs, Maharajas, and the Making of a Multipolar World Examples from non-Western history offer more promising precedents for the end of U.S. hegemony.

"Rise Of The Black Pharaohs," premiering Wednesday, October 1, 2014 on PBS, features exciting new archaeological finds in Sudan that are revealing the truth about the great Kush dynasty.

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations.

Long before colonial borders, the Kingdom of Kush rose in the Nile Valley conquering Egypt, ruling as pharaohs, and leaving ...

Archaeologists have uncovered predynastic tombs that date back to before the times of Egypt's pharaohs. The tombs are over 5,000-years-old and were discovered where the Nile River drains into the ...

The unsettling curse of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt has bewildered archaeologists since it’s been feared to be linked to the mysterious deaths of multiple of the excavators who discovered ...