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POPSScholars Race to Recover a Lost Kingdom on the Nile Kush is an anomaly to archaeologists because it was a fairly complex society exerting control over 750 miles of the Nile River valley but had no writing system, no extensive bureaucracy and no major urban areas. A rush is underway to discover the mysteries of Kush before they disappear under the rising Nile waters behind a new dam in northern Sudan.