Archeological diggings have unearthed the remains of streets, houses, sprawling palaces, and huge piles of slag left from its iron industry.

When scholars are able to decipher the Kushitic writings much more will be known about the culture and way of life of this early black empire.

In the first century A.D.a Kushite official, whom the Bible refers to as the Ethiopian eunuch, was converted to Christianity by the apostle Philip while returning from a visit to Jerusalem.

Shortly, Christianity spread throughout the entire kingdom.
When Kush was defeated by the Axumites, founders of modern Ethiopia, several smaller Nubian, Christian kingdoms survived.

Not until the sixteenth century, after almost a thousand years of pressure, did Islam gain supremacy in western Sudan.