Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C. It left behind numerous monuments ...

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 ...

Nubia once stretched south from Aswan, Egypt, to modern-day Khartoum, Sudan. It gave rise to one of Africa’s earliest civilizations, the Kingdom of Kush, whose kings—nicknamed the Black ...

Sudan has around 255 pyramids - more than twice as many as its neighbour - built by the ancient Kingdom of Kush, which once ruled over parts of both Sudan and Egypt.

While many link Egypt to the pyramids, Sudan is the African country home to the largest number of pyramids. This is partly because the realm of the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt had reached far south ...

A map of modern Egypt. The Conversation Located along the Nile River in what is today Sudan, the ancient civilization of Nubia or Kush at times rivaled its neighbor to the north, Egypt.