By: Resala Abdelrahim Port Sudan, Sudanow – Sudan is home to numerous archaeological sites dating back to prehistoric times ...

Centered on its original capital at Napata, the Nubian ruling dynasty continued to flourish militarily and economically through the ninth century B.C. Around 730 B.C., the Nubian king, Piye ...

Meroe was the southern administrative centre for the kingdom of Cush, beginning about 750 bce, at a time when Napata was still its capital. After the sack of Napata in about 590 by the Egyptian ...

The dynasty ended following a military defeat at the hands of the Assyrians and in about 600 BC the capital of the Kushite kingdom was moved from Napata to Meroe, further south along the Nile.

“The pyramids were built as tombs for the kings and queens of the Meroitic Kingdom and Napata,” Google answers the Googly. “The structures were built by the Kingdom of Kush, an ancient ...