The ancient pyramids of Meroe have been standing for some 2,000 years, built by the rulers of the ancient Kushite Kingdom in the Nubian region of present-day northern Sudan. The over 200 ...

You may be surprised if you hear about someone using their vacation days on a trip to Sudan, and though the African country has been plagued by military conflict and violence, there's a lot of beauty ...

Ancient Egyptians had their own version of 'Mount Olympus' in Gebel Barkal in Sudan which served as the house of god Amon The Greeks were not the first to have a ‘Mount Olympus’ where their pantheon ...

The story starts about 5,000 years ago in the "Land of the Bow," when a jet-black people formed one of the first nation states in the world along the Nile, where women and men had equal rights and the ...

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 ...

Quiet conversation and the whip of the felucca's single sail lull me into a peaceful state as we drift along the Nile near Aswan. We float past a temple dedicated to Ptah, god of the delta and ...