Remains of a 2,600-year-old statue with an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphics has been discovered in a temple at Dangeil, an archaeological site along the Nile River in Sudan.

the Nubian hieroglyphic language. Meroitic, the second-oldest written language in Africa, is one of the few remaining undeciphered ancient languages. And a city such as Dangeil, which was occupied ...

[Photos: Royal Nubian Statue With Egyptian Hieroglyphics] "The Meroitic writing system, the oldest of the sub-Saharan region, still mostly resists our understanding," Vincent Francigny, an ...

Reisner interpreted what he found in Nubia by way of Egyptian propaganda found in hieroglyphics ... at the MFA with a focus on Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art.