Jabal Maragha, an ancient archaeological site in Sudan, is no more. Gold hunters, digging illegally, have destroyed the historic landmark, erasing nearly every trace of what was a small settlement or ...

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The vast trench dug by treasure hunters is visible at the center of this image. Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP via Getty Images Last month, archaeologists arriving at Jabal Maragha in eastern Sudan ...

*Once upon a time, in the ancient past, Before the Common Era (BCE), in an time most European scholars refer to as the mythical “dark ages.” In the land of Kush, there lived a great, grand, highly ...