Buried in rubbish for centuries - the exciting breakthrough that proves a lost King existed
4th March 2026
A fragment of Arabic writing recovered
from a long-forgotten rubbish heap in northern Sudan has provided
the first firm proof that a ruler once dismissed as little more
than legend did in fact exist. The document, issued in the name of
the Nubian king Qashqash, was discovered during excavations at Old
Dongola, the former capital of the Christian kingdom of Makuria on
the Nile. For historians of…

