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 ...

The world’s oldest known carpet—a sliver of patterned red fabric used for hundreds of years to cloak a dead body—highlights the Oriental Institute’s new permanent exhibit, “Ancient Nubia.” The ...

Researchers have uncovered rare evidence of toddlers tattooed in Nubia during the Christian era, revealing visible facial markings.

The construct of race was neither heard nor thought of during the two-thousand-year span included within the Saint Louis Art Museum’s presentation of “Nubia: Treasures of Ancient Africa.” And yet ...

The expansiveness of the galleries immediately catches one's eye. That, and the way the Museum of Fine Arts uses a massive 10,000-square-foot exhibition called "Ancient Nubia Now" to set the record ...

A researcher has uncovered a set of historical records thought to have been lost during the Second World War, and the information contained in them has shed new light on an ancient people. Jenny ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals a fascinating and unusual practice from the ancient kingdom of Nubia. Archaeologists have uncovered ...