MONUMENTS OF THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN; Report of Interesting Excavations Made by an Archaeologist Attached to the British Museum.* Share full article. Nov. 30, 1907.

Much smaller monuments, such as the 30-inch-wide pyramid, were built over the graves of children. “It’s a fantastic gathering of pyramidal structures,” says Francigny.

Ancient Islamic tombs in Sudan are arranged in clusters that resemble galaxies. The pattern hints at the social structures of the Beja people buried there.

Outside of the newly documented burial mounds, Sudan is home to a wellspring of archaeological riches, including funerary monuments and remnants of ancient Nile Valley civilizations.

A Kingdom of Pyramid Builders. Sudan’s pyramids are the legacy of the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient superpower that flourished between 800 BCE and 350 CE in Nubia, a region spanning southern Egypt ...

With somewhere between 220 and 255 pyramids standing within its borders, Sudan sits at the pinnacle of the list. Bordering Egypt, the African nation easily eclipses its neighbor’s total, which ...

One of Sudan's main landmarks, a skyscraper that towered over the River Nile and housed the headquarters of a major oil company, has been reduced to a smouldering wreck amid heavy fighting between ...