Best Sudanese Destinations: Meroe Pyramids, Khartoum, Naqa, Musawwarat, Port Sudan and Deep Nubian Heritage Tour Guide
Browse more guides: Sudan travel | Africa destinations Best Sudanese Destinations: Meroe Pyramids (UNESCO 2011), Gebel Barkal and the Napatan Region (UNESCO 2003), Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay (UNESCO 2016), Khartoum, Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra Deep Nubian Heritage Tour I spent fourteen years studying Kushite stelae, Meroitic script and the cartouches of Piye, Taharqa and Aspelta before I ever stood in front of a Sudanese pyramid in photographs, books, museum collections in Berlin, London and Boston, and the long, careful field reports of George Reisner from 1916 to 1923. Sudan is the country that taught me that "Egyptian" is a misleading shorthand for the Nile, that the Kingdom of Kush ruled Egypt itself as the 25th Dynasty from roughly 744 BC to 656 BC, and that the densest concentration of pyramids on Earth sits not at Giza but along a 350-kilometre stretch of desert between Karima and Shendi. I write this guide with absolute respect for the country...