The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...

3rd Century B.C. As space in Meroë’s south cemetery runs out, expansion begins in the north cemetery of the city’s growing necropolis. 250 B.C. King Arakamani relocates the royal necropolis ...