Drone cameras are now so commonplace that we often see them used in extreme sports videos and YouTube pranks, but they have many scientific uses as well. National Geographic engineer Alan Turchik flew ...

Ancient Egyptians had their own version of 'Mount Olympus' in Gebel Barkal in Sudan which served as the house of god Amon The Greeks were not the first to have a ‘Mount Olympus’ where their pantheon ...

The story starts about 5,000 years ago in the "Land of the Bow," when a jet-black people formed one of the first nation states in the world along the Nile, where women and men had equal rights and the ...

From vicious proxy wars and human rights abuses to providing a haven for Osama bin Laden, the activities of the Sudanese regime, led by President Omar al-Bashir, have turned the country into a pariah ...

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, ...

Sudan, not Egypt, holds the world’s highest concentration of pyramids. Built by the Kushite kings of Nubia, these monuments ...