This stretch of the Nile from Aswan in the north to the Sudanese border in the south is an archaeological haven. Home to temples ranging from the New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, as ...

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Although it was heavily influenced by Egyptian culture and religion ... Osama Abdel Meguid, Director of the Nubian Museum in Aswan. In 713 BC King Shabaka came to power in Kush and brought ...

UNESCO launched an international safeguarding campaign to save monuments in Nubia from being flooded by the waters of Lake Nasser. The construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt drew unprecedented ...

On 10 October, the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, sentenced 10 Egyptian Nubian men to prison terms ranging between 10 to 18 years following a grossly unfair trial for ...

Located in the desert sands near the Nile in modern Sudan, the ancient culture of Nubia played a decisive ... Meroite forces attacked Roman troops in Aswan—the most southerly frontier of the ...

The construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s threatened to destroy several ancient Nubian monuments located further upstream. In response, UNESCO led an international effort to disassemble, ...

This documentary visits Omay, Eyo and Sokar, each from a different Nubian village in Aswan, Egypt ... exposing a rich Nubian culture that is fading day by day. Fatma and her mother are Kurdish ...