Wahenga Youth Group and Kushites Kreations Youth Group, a collaboration of youth groups from Kenya's capital in Nairobi, have taken to graffiti to create awareness on the dangers and existence of the ...

Maximum extent of the Aksumite Empire. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The capital was also included by UNESCO in its World Heritage list, partly because of the modernist architecture from the Italian ...

Humans Excavation in Sudan shows Roman Empire wasn’t as mighty as it claimed When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a ...

MicroProse or whatever currently prospers under the decades-old MicroProse banner have announced that they're publishing Strategos, a real-time tactics wargame set in classical antiquity. I hadn't ...

The Kushites were strong warriors, skilled merchants and expert builders who controlled important trade routes along the Nile River. Around 770 BCE, King Piye led his army north and took control of ...

At its height, Kush didn’t just compete with Egypt —it conquered it. Around 770 BCE, the Kushite king Piye led his armies north, taking control of Thebes, Memphis, and the great temples of Egypt (The ...

Egyptian artwork shows the Kushites with darker skin, like a lot of people in Sudan today. Over the course of a few centuries, the Kushites built 80 pyramids at Nuri.

After the Kushites lost control of Egypt, they retreated to their corner of Nubia, eventually establishing a new capital at Meroë.

The achievements of the Kushites in warfare, governance and art illustrate the dynamism of African civilisations and their ability to innovate and adapt.

The Kushites not only traded with Egypt but also conquered it. During the 25th Dynasty, known as the “Kushite Dynasty,” rulers like Piye and Taharqa governed Egypt, blending African and ...