Students at the University of Nottingham are upset after a history course claimed that J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings ...

Researchers had long understood that tattooing was a cultural practice in Nubia, a region along the Nile. However, poor ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers.

The residents of Sudan were the most prolific pyramid builders, constructing between 200 and 255 pyramids, compared to their ...

Harvey, Austin. "Archaeologists In Sudan Have Discovered 1,400-Year-Old Mummies Of Nubian Children With Facial Tattoos." ...

Egyptian authorities have pulled back the curtain on the repaired statues, described as 'one of the most important landmarks of the Egyptian civilization'.

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

People around the world have been adorning their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. While one of the most famous ancient tattoo wearers is Otzi the Iceman—the prehistoric man whose 5,300-year ...

To survive and flourish, every great civilization needs to cherish the story of its origin. It is good, then, that plans are taking shape to celebrate next year’s 250th anniversary of our nation’s ...