Le mystérieux empire de Méroé aux pyramides singulières qui s'est développé sous l'Antiquité, dans le nord de l'actuel Soudan, livre quelques-uns de ses secrets le temps d'une exposition au musée du ...

Méroé fut un des royaumes antiques majeurs de la civilisation soudanaise. Il a côtoyé pendant plusieurs siècles son imposante voisine, l’Egypte de la basse époque, celle où régna notamment la grande ...

The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...

A quelques kilomètres des rapides du Nil et de la route reliant Khartoum (Soudan) à la mer Rouge, elles surgissent, tel un mirage, sur des dunes de sable fin balayées par le vent, au coeur d'une ...

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Archaeologists excavating on the banks of the Nile have uncovered a necropolis where hundreds of small pyramids once stood Since a French explorer first described the cemetery at Meroe in the early ...

C'est une première mondiale. L'exposition « Méroé, un empire sur le Nil », qui s'ouvre aujourd'hui au Louvre, réunit en un même musée des vestiges de l'empire de Méroé qui régna sur une région de 700 ...

Desecrated by plunderers, threatened by floodwaters and largely overshadowed by their Egyptian counterparts, Sudan’s ancient archaeological sites may finally be poised to receive broader recognition.

The mysterious rulers of Nubia, in present-day Sudan, erected hundreds of tombs and temples that rival Cairo’s. A “haboob” (sandstorm) rolls across the Meroë pyramids in Sudan. Most of the 41 tombs ...

The Meroe pyramids in northeastern Sudan sit about1,650 feet from the banks of the Nile. Now, the site's royal bath is at risk of damage from record flooding. Ashraf Shazly / AFP via Getty Images Two ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own, ...