Ancient NubiaFirst published in 1996. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological civil servant and an academic. The archaeology and ancient history of Nubia has not been well known until very recently and the book is planned to fill a gap by making this story more widely known. |
Contents
Chapter 1 The Geography Environment and People of Nubia | 1 |
Chapter 2 The Stone Ages | 17 |
Chapter 3 The AGroup and First Contacts with Egypt | 43 |
Chapter 4 The CGroup Kerma and the Beginnings of Urban Life | 54 |
Chapter 5 Egyptian Occupation in the New Kingdom | 78 |
Chapter 6 The Growth of an Independent Sudanese State Napata and Meroe | 95 |
Chapter 7 Christian Nubia and the Coming of Islam | 119 |
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A-Group activity Amun ancient Arabic archaeological Arkell artefacts Aswan bank Blue Nile bone brick Buhen building built buried cattle cemetery ceramics certainly Christian church close Coptic culture Deffufa described dynasty earlier Early Khartoum evidence excavated expedition Faras forts fourth cataract Gebel Barkal graves important inhabitants inscription island Kadero Kawa Kerma Khartoum Khartoum Hospital kilometres king known Kurru Kush large number later Lower Nubia Makuria material Meroe Meroitic metres Middle Kingdom Mirgissa mound Napata Neolithic Nile valley Nobatae Nubian language Nuri occupation Old Dongola Old Kingdom Old Nubian Old Stone Age perhaps period Pharaoh Piankhy Plate population pots pottery presence probably pyramids Qasr Ibrim Ramesses reign Reisner river royal burials rulers second cataract seems Semna settlement Shaheinab Shaqadud shows similar Soba sorghum southern stone tools style Sudan suggests Taharqa temple tomb town Tuthmosis Uronarti Wadi Haifa wall White Niles