The Monastery in Ghazali is a medieval Christian monastery in the Bayuda Desert in northern Sudan. Probably founded by the Makurian king Merkurios in the...

cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly,...

the distorted letters 'IHS'. In 2016 a 1,300-year-old corpse, was found in a cemetery near a medieval monastery in Ghazali, Sudan, whose right foot bore...

derived from the way the word is used in the New Testament (Acts 8:27). A kandake who ruled in her own right bore in addition the title qore, the same title...

Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia...

used in central Sudan from time immemorial. Hafirs were an important feature of the Meroitic civilization in the Butana and were often built in the immediate...

Dotawo was a Christian kingdom in Lower Nubia (northern Sudan and southern Egypt) in the Middle Ages. It is attested in Old Nubian documents from the 12th...

forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt. The archaeological digs on the island became a World Heritage Site in 1979, along with other examples...

dedicated to indigenous Kushite deities were replaced with churches and monasteries dedicated to Yahweh. Burial practices also changed from Kerman-style...

Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which became independent in 2011. The territory of Sudan is geographically part of a larger African region...