GENEVA - Over 165,000 people have fled increasing tensions and conflict in South Sudan in the past three months, seeking safety both within the country and across borders and deepening an already dire ...

The Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid in the world by volume, but for centuries, it went unnoticed, hidden in plain sight beneath a Spanish church. Interestingly enough, Cholula had once ...

Bankole Adeoye, Political Affairs, Peace and Security Commissioner for the African Union, left, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy, at the London Sudan ... How Were the Pyramids Built?

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology—led by Dr. Sarah Schrader of Leiden University—presents compelling bioarchaeological evidence from the site of Tombos in ...

Skeletons discovered at Tombos in northern Sudan included ... Nubia around 1500 BCE. The population was thought to consist mostly of scribes, professionals and craftspeople. The area is also home to ...

A study has revealed a 'contrasting' theory surrounding which members of society were laid to rest in pyramid tombs in Tombos ... which is now known as northern Sudan and southern Egypt - and ...

“Pyramid schemes” aren’t just for the wealthy. Archaeologists have long theorized that Egyptian pyramid tombs were reserved for the elite. However, analysis of skeletons belonging to ...

It's thought the population of Tombos ... around 80 pyramids were built within the Kingdom of Kush, now located in the modern country of Sudan. Of those located in modern Egypt, most were ...

In the conflict-ridden East African country of Sudan, the 2,000-year-old Meroe pyramids, under UNESCO protection, continue to stand tall in the desert, surviving war and neglect while shedding a ...

Every nation has its heroes, history and myths. In Sudan, the points of pride are literal. Our desert is home to more pyramids than any other country in the world. These pyramids were built by the ...

Despite these warnings, Sudan guards one of Africa's greatest archaeological secrets: a millennial legacy of pyramids that surpasses even that of Egypt. While Egypt is synonymous with pyramids ...

In August, the organisation detected Level 5 ‘Catastrophe’ levels of food insecurity in Zamzam, Sudan’s largest ... 638,000 (1 per cent of the total population) at Level 5 ‘Catastrophe ...