{"id":4133,"date":"2022-05-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2022-04-19T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:08:21","slug":"archaeological-site-along-the-nile-opens-a-window-on-the-nubian-civilization-that-flourished-in-ancient-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/archaeological-site-along-the-nile-opens-a-window-on-the-nubian-civilization-that-flourished-in-ancient-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological site along the Nile opens a window on the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Thousands of years ago, people in this part of Sudan used underground tombs to bury their dead.\n Michele R. Buzon<\/span>, CC BY-ND<\/a><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\nMichele R. Buzon<\/a>, Purdue University<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos<\/a> in northern Sudan. They reveal tumuli \u2013 the underground burial tombs used at least as far back as 2500 B.C. by ancient inhabitants who called this region Kush or Nubia<\/a>. As a bioarchaeologist<\/a> who excavates and analyzes human skeletal remains along with their related grave goods, I\u2019ve been working<\/a> at Tombos for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n\n