Osama Abdel Meguid, Director of the Nubian Museum in Aswan. The Kushites were first based in Kerma, and then at Napata - both towns in what is now northern Sudan. Kerma was an advanced society and ...

and his team who were battling the rising waters building up behind the newly completed Aswan Low Dam. The fact the area was flooded by the end of the excavation demonstrates the historical importance ...

Amid escalating military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to the country. "Due to armed conflict, civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and ...

The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities has announced that the country will introduce free visas for travellers. However, ...

In 1964, the Egyptian government forcibly displaced thousands of Nubians from their homes in southern Egypt, to build the Aswan High Dam which caused the flooding of several Nubian villages and ...

Egypt was building the Aswan High Dam, needed to boost its agriculture and power ... Egypt and its neighbour Sudan asked UNESCO for help to safeguard their precious Nubian heritage. This is where the ...