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.

Floor-to-ceiling hieroglyphics depicting the victorious ... 30,000km road to a lost world North Africa's Nubian Valley straddles the border of southern Egypt and northern Sudan, a remote desert ...

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 ...

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.

In Nubian cosmology, Amun himself resided within ... The use of traditional Egyptian hieroglyphic writing for formal inscriptions was replaced by texts formulated in the quite different, and ...

[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 ...

A review of how ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were first translated 200 years ago, and a look at the archaeological work now being done in Egypt to understand one of the empire’s most important ...