Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë ... but the few exquisite artifacts he brought back opened the eyes of European scholars to this mysterious culture that ...
The excavations at Meroe were begun in 1920 ... "In the debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner ...
Sudan boasts even more pyramids than Egypt ... "Tens of thousands of artefacts" were taken, an anonymous official from the institute told The Guardian, with many smuggled across Sudan's southern ...
From Mesoamerica to North Africa, pyramids were apparently all the rage in the ancient world. Yet while the triangular ...
The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only person standing between some of Sudan’s greatest art treasures and rampaging armies ...
The Indus Valley civilisation left no temples or tombs, like the Pyramids of Egypt ... There have been lots of artefacts found at Mohenjo-Daro, which can help to build up a picture of how people ...