Sudan is home to more standing pyramids than Egypt, but the story of Nubian burial architecture began long before pyramids ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

In a Nubian tomb dated to around 4500 BC, archaeologists found a decorated ostrich egg. Carved into its surface are three triangular shapes beside a winding line resembling a river. Some say they are ...