PARIS — Agatha Christie could have invented the story. Imagine another Egypt, with a marked black African component. This is Meroe, in present-day Sudan. In art, ancient Egyptian deities appear ...

On July 19, 1799, the Rosetta Stone was discovered. The stone, which has the same ancient text written in both Egyptian and Greek, helped scholars decipher ancient Egyptian writing. Even so, there are ...

Writing is the representation of thought and human language by signs. It is a means of durable and privileged communication between people. Nubia seems to have been a melting pot and a meeting point ...

Want to take trip back in time? Pick up a shovel and a plane ticket to northeast Africa. In the world of archaeology, Sudan is a goldmine. The country contains some of history’s oldest archaeological ...