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Amid escalating military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to the country. "Due to armed conflict, civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and ...

Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, they created a culture that influenced both civilizations. The first tomb ...

Archaeologists working in Sudan have uncovered something that upends assumptions about childhood in the ancient world: tiny mummified faces and limbs marked with deliberate ink designs. The 1,400-year ...