Jan 11, 2024 · I was initially interested in learning about war between Meroe (known as Kush) and Rome, and was elated to find that there were Meroitic sources that told of the war from the perspective of the Nubians. However, the most information I can find about these indigenous sources are from 2014 and I can't access the full paper.

Mar 30, 2021 · The problem I was having was the fact that the Strabo passage doesn't involve Meroe or the Nubians in the events of 29 BC - at least as far as I can see - but I see now that the trilingual inscription in this context has Gallus campaign against enemies beyond the First Cataract (I can't access FHN at the moment, but this website provided what ...

Jul 5, 2022 · Anyway, back to the subject of elephants. I found an inscription of two Meroe elephants with striae, somewhat resembling the elephant with the harness, however without dots in the open fields between the striae. It comes from a bronze beaker with an incised scene of two elephants, who are holding what seem to be a number of rings in ther trunks.

Oct 5, 2020 · It was around this same time as the Nubian capital city Napata was switch to Meroe that a large migration from Kemet into various regions of Sub Saharan Africa occurred, which was around the 6th century B.C.E. This was also around the time that iron smelting first entered West Africa (Nok civilization and a Cameroonian site slightly south of it).

Nov 12, 2021 · Auloi, Greek aerophones, wind instruments, found at Meroe, tomb of Queen Amanishakheto. These are among the best preserved such instruments from Antiquity in the world! Sudanese musicians still demonstrate a high proficiency in classical Western instruments, including aerophones, adapting it and making it their own...

Jul 19, 2012 · The Greek geographer Strabo describes the Blemmyes as a peaceful people living in the East Desert near Meroe. Their cultural and military power started to enlarge to such a level that in 197 Pescennius Niger asked a Blemmye king of Thebas to help him in the battle against the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus.

Apr 30, 2022 · PS: Using Meroe is what extreme Afrocentrics would use to claim West Africans descend from the Nile Valley. So.... Good luck with that argument. I wouldn't dare argue iron diffused from Meroe into West Africa unless you want the "we wuz kangz" crowd to claim all Nile Valley civilization. *shrugs* Not sure where you stand....

Apr 19, 2013 · Among other things, Nero sent a couple of legions south, from Meroe [next to Karthum] to discover from where the Nile river came. It wasn't the first expedition in the Sub-Saharan Africa: Roman wanted to control the commercial ways of that region [in 19 BCE Romans went towards Ciad lake, for example]. See Seneca, De Terra Motu. 6NQ;8,5.

Aug 19, 2018 · It depends on mixing level. Dinka-like population inhabitated Sudan but mixed with egyptians while time passed out. Some intense mixing may have started about 350 BCE (or CE??) during Meroe period, due to migrations, trade and things of sort which gave rise to Christian nubians.

Oct 7, 2015 · The Macrobians were an ancient people and kingdom positioned on the Somali peninsula during the 1st millennium BC. They are mentioned by Herodotus as being a nation of people that had mastered longevity with the average Macrobian living till the age of 120. They were said to be the "Tallest and...