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 ...

You may be surprised if you hear about someone using their vacation days on a trip to Sudan, and though the African country has been plagued by military conflict and violence, there's a lot of beauty ...

Amid escalating military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of Sudan, the UK Foreign Office advised against all travel to the country. "Due to armed conflict, civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and ...

There are more than 100 pyramids in Egypt, but this was the first, built during the reign of Pharoah Djoser (2630 B.C. to 2611 B.C) as a grand mausoleum for himself. Previous pharaohs’ tombs were flat ...

Sudan’s cultural heritage stretches back thousands of years. The North African nation boasts ancient Nubian temples, more pyramids than Egypt and is credited with being the birthplace of modern ...

A visitor on an Intrepid Travel tour experiences Nubian home cooking in Egypt, enjoying a meal with a local family in Aswan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Jada Pinkett Smith’s ...

Quiet conversation and the whip of the felucca's single sail lull me into a peaceful state as we drift along the Nile near Aswan. We float past a temple dedicated to Ptah, god of the delta and ...