Twice a year at dawn, a shaft of sunlight cuts through Abu Simbel’s Great Temple to light three statues—and in doing so turns ...
As the first quarter of the 21st century came to an end, Nevine Mossad, professor of political science and published author, ...
Today, there have been humane acts of returning works of art taken during the age of colonisation to African nations, fostering a glow of new understanding upon glancing back at the past and bridging ...
Khaberni - From the land of magic and beauty, the land of Nubia in Aswan Governorate, southern Egypt, where customs blend with heritage and daily details transform into clear identity features, spring ...
Journey to the majestic temples of Abu Simbel, carved into the Nubian cliffs more than three thousand years ago by Pharaoh Ramses II, and discover the enduring tribute he built for his beloved Queen ...
When Sabrine El Hossam, one of Egypt’s leading percussionists, talks about Nubia, she doesn’t start with monuments or ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza might get all the headlines, but it wasn't humanity’s first monumental effort. Long before pharaohs were stacking limestone in Egypt, people across the world were carving ...
An international study investigating the genomic diversity of the Sudanese population reveals that the Copts originating in Egypt –who settled in the country between the seventh and eleventh centuries ...
After using the "Relative Erosion Method" to uncover how old the Great Pyramid of Giza is, Alberto Donini suggests it may date to 22916 B.C.E.
A survey of rock art in Wadi Khamila conducted by Mustafa Nour El-Din of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Ludwig Morenz of the University of Bonn revealed a 5,000-year-old ...
Constructed between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries, Great Zimbabwe features massive stone enclosures built entirely without mortar. Granite blocks were carefully shaped and stacked to create ...
The Egyptian writings, believed to date back to the 13th century BC, refer to encounters with the Shosu, a group described as ...