The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now Sudan, was a major urban and cultural center of Kush, an ancient empire in Nubia. University of Michigan archaeologists and earth scientists examined ...

The Nile, flowing south to north through Egypt to the Mediterranean, is more than 4,000 miles long, by some measures the world’s longest river, though by others a few miles shorter than the Amazon ...

Changing characteristics of vast river helped Kushite dynasty in what is now Sudan rise to power and society to develop ...