Meroitic Report of War Between Rome and Meroe - History Forum
2024年1月11日 · The conflict be divided into 3 phases per Roman historian Strabo: 1) Initial Kushite attacks against Rome that seized captives, and various imperial Roman symbols - as trophies-i.e. the buried Augustus heads so that the Kushites could symbolically thread on Roman enemies is another indication of the Kushite POV visible in the record 2) Roman ...
Roman Kushite War - History Forum
2021年3月31日 · 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 ...
Some question about ancient sources on Meroe, and earlier …
2023年7月31日 · 2) Did the Egyptians write extensively about Meroe or any of its predecessors? I know of the "miserable Kush" inscription, but anything with more depth to it? 3) Did the Greeks and Romans write much about them? I have read Herodotus, and Strabo's account of the Nubian war. Are there other good texts? 4) Anyone else write about them?
Kushites and Medieval Nubians in colour - History Forum
2016年1月8日 · Decorated Chapels of the Meroitic Pyramids at Meroe and Barkal", although the sketch from Tarekeniwal is also published in a more detailed version in the PhD of Steffen Wenig named "Untersuchungen zur Ikonographie der Darstellungen der meroitischen Königsfamilie und zu Fragen der Chronologie des Reiches von Meroe" ("Investigations on the ...
How far did Aksum extend into the Arabian Peninsula?
2024年11月21日 · It isn't a stretch to say that for African standards, archaeology in Nubia is very advanced. The salvage excavations in Lower Nubia were impressive even for international standards. The picture isn't as great further south, but even here we have many sites that have been excavated for years, if not decades. Dongola, Meroe, Soba, Naga and so on.
Meroitic and Aksumite Royal Elephants (and the possible use of …
2022年7月5日 · 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.
Bantu Origins of Ancient Egypt - History Forum
2020年10月5日 · 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).
The Diversity Of Early African Architecture/Ruins Thread
2013年7月1日 · Ruins of Loropéni Brief Description The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone walls is the best preserved of ten fortresses in the Lobi area and is part of a larger group of 100 stone enclosures that bear testimony to the power of the trans-Saharan gold trade.
The difference between North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa
2016年1月28日 · East Africa was connected to the world through the sea (Monsoons allow bidirectional sailing) and with a river (the Nile) and so developed cultures that could be included into the classical Eurasian ones (Nubia, Aksumite kingdom, Meroe)
Macrobians Kingdom? - History Forum
2015年10月7日 · 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...