Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

They mark the site of the ancient city Meroë ... extending his control to the whole Nile Valley. Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 B.C.), the so-called Black ...

There are days when the sand blows ceaselessly, blanketing the remains of a powerful dynasty that ruled Egypt ... sands revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web site will show you ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Giza's three pyramids and the Sphinx were constructed in the fourth dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom ... How did the ancient Egyptians move the massive stones used to build the pyramids from ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

From Mesoamerica to North Africa, pyramids were apparently all the rage in the ancient world ... of these was Piye, who successfully invaded Egypt to kick off the new dynasty in approximately ...