Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social hierarchy than previously understood. Researchers from Leiden University ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs ...

A granite statue located in Tombos, an ancient Egyptian outpost in present-day Sudan Sue Fleckney via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Historians have long assumed that ancient Egyptian ...

A collapsed statue in the ancient Egyptian city of Tombos in Nubia, now Sudan. Credit: Sue Fleckney / Wikimedia Commons An international team of researchers has conducted a detailed analysis of the ...

In a new study, researchers analysed the remains of people buried in Tombos, an archaeological site located in modern-day Sudan, bordering Egypt. Around 3,500 years ago, the ancient town of Tombos sat ...

Recent archaeological discoveries at the ancient site of Tombos in northern Sudan have unveiled skeletons that defy long-held beliefs about pyramid burials. Traditionally, it has been assumed that ...

Scientists studied the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan and found that "pyramid tombs, once thought to be the final resting place of the most elite, may have also included low-status high-labor ...

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs ...

This depiction of a face is from one of the wooden coffins at Tombos. (Image credit: Photo courtesy of the Tombos Archaeological Project) Archaeologists long believed that the ancient pyramids of ...