Thousands of years ago, people in this part of Sudan used underground tombs to bury their dead. Credit: Michele R. Buzon, CC BY-ND Along its length, the Nile has six cataracts – rocky places with ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Modern scholars’ lack of understanding of ancient Nubia and their inability to credit a civilization for its achievements reflects marketing strategies and circumstantial biases that simply create ...