A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Until recently, Nubian King Qashqash was only known to historians from a few scattered references, leaving it unclear whether he was an authentic ...

Stunning clothes from medieval Christian Nubia have been re-created and put on models, whose performance brought onlookers to ...

A live presentation of re-created costumes of Nubian kings, royal mothers, and bishop based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras will take place on December 9 at the School of Oriental and ...

Researchers have reconstructed the ceremonial attire of medieval Christian Nubian royalty and clergy from 1,200-year-old murals in Faras Cathedral, located in present-day Sudan and Egypt. Using ...