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 ...

270 BC and AD 350. The site, near the ancient city of Napata, held special significance for Kush and Egypt, which believed that it was the source of Creation and the birthplace of the sun god Amun-Ra.

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost ... The ruins of Kerma, the ancient capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush, known today as Sudan, are dominated ...

Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the ... found two dozen extant texts of the Book Of Two Ways maps inside the burial shaft. Most etchings have been difficult ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Researchers have discovered what is thought to be the first known map of the night sky ... a collection of ancient texts found in Sinai, Egypt, which date back to the sixth century.