Nubia
region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt
Episodes
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#5353: Egypt's 700,000-Pilgrim Party at BubastisHerodotus called it Egypt's biggest festival — a boozy Nile flotilla of 700,000 pilgrims bound for the cat goddess's city. -
#5586: The Ancient World Was More Connected Than You ThinkCould an ordinary person travel the Roman world? The evidence says yes — and the reasons we think otherwise are revealing. -
#5498: Who Was a Superpower Before America?The word "superpower" was invented in 1944. So how do you build a list of them stretching back to Akkad?