Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

When we hear about pyramids, we usually think of Egypt’s famous structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza.But do you know ...

The Kushite pyramids are also smaller ... They are a testament to the power of the Kingdom of Kush, a civilization that controlled critical trade routes along the Nile and maintained a complex ...

The Sudanese community in Portsmouth has helped curate an exhibition about the country's history and culture. Ancient Sudan: ...

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...

It's not clear how the Bantu gained their skills in iron working. The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the ...

Taharqo, represented in the British Museum sphinx, is the most important of all the Kushite kings. He initiated a golden age for his immense new kingdom, and he succeeded largely because ...

already imported into the New Kingdom; 3) contemporary Egyptian elements. Literature: Lohwasser, Angelika: The Kushite Cemetery of Sanam. A Non-Royal Burial Ground of the Nubian Capital, c. 800-600 BC ...

Episode 22 - Sphinx of Taharqo. Sphinx of Taharqo (made around 680 BC) found in Temple T at Kawa, northern Sudan. If you were to ask which country the River Nile belongs to, most ...

To the uneducated eye, the kingdom’s visual culture can appear ... It may have been produced during the third century BC for a Kushite king who styled himself as “beloved of Isis”.

In 2021, Sekennia embarked on a pilgrimage to North Africa, tracing her lineage to the ancient Kushite kingdom and the Mons Bantu Tribe, descendants of the Dark Skin Highness Goddess Aset/Isis.