Tracing the origins of Egypt's unique ... this civilisation's art reflected its religion, he looks anew at the Great Pyramid, and the statuary and painting of the Old Kingdom.

But starting in the eighth century B.C., Nubian pharaohs from a Kushite kingdom, now in northern Sudan, ruled Egypt. For more than a hundred years, they revived and adapted ancient Egyptian ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom ... art adorning this fourth-century B.C. tomb is related to the style of ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation of continuing needs in the afterlife ...