The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...

If ancient wonders, mysterious temples and the steady flow of the Nile River are calling, a cruise on Egypt’s most famous waterway is one of the best ways to see and do it all. From Luxor to Aswan ...

The Nile nourishes a green band stretching through the desert, from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Along its banks, the ancient Egyptians grew their crops, and still do. They also built ...

Changing characteristics of vast river helped Kushite dynasty in what is now Sudan rise to power and society to develop ...