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Historic locations in the Middle East and North Africa are increasingly being featured on virtual platforms…

Source: Google offers virtual tours of Sudan’s Pyramids of Meroe

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The ancient Kushite capital, marooned in the Sudanese desert, must be a top contender for the world’s most impressive least-visited site, reckons Lyn Hughes. Here’s why you should make the trip…

Source: World heritage: the Pyramids of Meroe, Sudan

Source: Discover the Meroe Pyramids, Sudan

The African nation’s pyramids and other archaeological sites are only now emerging from the shadow of its more storied neighbor to the north…

Source: Why Sudan’s Remarkable Ancient Civilization Has Been Overlooked by History

Visitors to these sites had one particular religious ritual that may strike some as strange: they carved graffiti in important and sacred places.

Source: Temple graffiti reveals stories from ancient Sudan

Sudan – Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe

Long ignored by white archaeologists as a mere footnote, modern scientists are now racing to document what’s left of the ancient African civilization.

Source: In Sudan, Rediscovering Ancient Nubia Before It’s Too Late

Sudan – Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe

A photographer’s journey deep into the Sudanese desert.

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This island between the Atbara and Nile was once at the center of the mighty Kingdom of Kush.

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