Drone cameras are now so commonplace that we often see them used in extreme sports videos and YouTube pranks, but they have many scientific uses as well. National Geographic engineer Alan Turchik flew ...

The story starts about 5,000 years ago in the "Land of the Bow," when a jet-black people formed one of the first nation states in the world along the Nile, where women and men had equal rights and the ...

Another great thing you can do with drones—take stunning footage of ancient royal burial chambers. This National Geographic video offers an entirely new perspective on the Nubian pyramids that have ...

You may be surprised if you hear about someone using their vacation days on a trip to Sudan, and though the African country has been plagued by military conflict and violence, there's a lot of beauty ...

This episode covers megalithic jars used in funerary rites, Nubian pyramids rivaling Egypt, and some of the oldest stone temples and staircases on Earth. Includes insights on prehistoric fertility ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 7,000-year-old ostrich egg from a Nubian burial and were stunned to find intricate engravings covering its surface—images that looked strikingly like the Pyramids of Giza, ...

The first of these leaders is Kandake Amanitore of Nubia (Kandake is Nubian for “Queen.”) Nubia encompassed parts of modern-day Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia, and existed for thousands of years, up until ...

The Sahloul family compound includes a family room, kitchen and bedrooms opening out onto a courtyard. (Marilyn Jones / Special Contributor) Quiet conversation and the whip of the felucca's single ...