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

Located in the desert sands near the Nile in modern Sudan, the ancient culture of Nubia played a decisive ... Atum. Sandstone statue from Meroë, first century B.C. Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen ...

The statues of the kings found at Dangeil were ... Janice Yellin, a professor of art history at Babson College who specializes in ancient Nubia, agrees: “If it’s some kind of ritual ...