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    Meroë (/ˈmɛroʊiː/; also spelled Meroe; Meroitic: Medewi; Arabic: مرواه, romanized: Meruwah and مروي, Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, romanized: Meróē) was...
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    The Pyramids of Meroë are a large number of Nubian pyramids, encompassing three cemeteries near the ancient city of Meroë. The Meroë pyramids date to the...
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    Meroë Park (born December 1, 1966) is an American former intelligence official who served as Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...
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    The Meroë Head, or Head of Augustus from Meroë, is a larger-than-life-size bronze head depicting the first Roman emperor, Augustus, that was found in the...
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  • Meroe Island is an island of India. The island belongs to the township of Great Nicobar of Little Nicobar Taluk. This island is known for its rich fish...
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    Kandake (redirect from Candace of Meroë)
    the title qore, the same title carried by male rulers. The Kandakes of Meroe were first described through the Greek geographer's Strabo account of the...
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    of Ancient Nubia. Oxford University. pp. 411–422. Baud, Michel (2010). Méroé. Un empire sur le Nil (in French). Officina Libraria. ISBN 978-8889854501...
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    Brill. ISBN 9789004262959. Rilly, Claude (2007). La langue du royaume de Méroé: un panorama de la plus ancienne culture écrite d'Afrique subsaharienne...
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    citizens of Napata and Meroë. The four main sites in which these pyramids hold prominence are El-Kurru, Nuri, Jebel Barkal, and Meroe. The first three sites...
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    Butana (redirect from Island of Meroë)
    The Butana (Arabic: البطانة, Buṭāna), historically called the Island of Meroë, is the region between the Atbara and the Nile in the Sudan. South of Khartoum...
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  • palaeoclimatic issues. p. 18 Claude Rilly (2007). La langue du royaume de Méroé, Un panorama de la plus ancienne culture écrite d’Afrique subsaharienne...
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    László Mérő (redirect from Laszlo Meroe)
    László Mérő (born Budapest, 11 December 1949) is a Hungarian research psychologist and popular science author. He has Jewish ancestry. He is a lecturer...
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    other Ethiopians." Together, Musawwarat es-Sufra, Naqa, and Meroë formed the Island of Meroe. The town's importance gradually increased from the beginning...
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  • Scourge) was published on 28 May 2021. A second reissue titled L'Empire de Méroé was released on 3 December 2021. During confinement, Gims announces on a...
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    la langue égyptienne. " — paragraph #2 — Claude Rilly, « Le royaume de Méroé », Afriques [En ligne], Varia, mis en ligne le 21 avril 2010, consulté le...
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    Pharaonic Egypt and at other times a rival state representing parts of Meroë or the Kingdom of Kush. By the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (744 BC–656 BC), all...
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    north–south elongated central depression containing the calderas Nili Patera and Meroe Patera, which are about 2 km deep. The roughly 2,300-meter high peak of...
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    possibly Akinidad. The excavation of Meroë (Nubia) was funded by the Sudan Excavation Committee. After the Meroë Head’s discovery, it was gifted to the...
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  • for naming years. Sappho returns from exile in Sicily (or 594 BC). Napata is sacked by the Egyptians and the Kushite capital relocates to Meroë. v t e...
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    coffin), Thebes (3rd century BC) Wall from a chapel of Queen Shanakdakhete, Meroë (c. 150 BC) Shrine of Ptolemy VII, Philae (c. 150 BC) Roman Period (30 BC...
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  • it was sacked by the Egyptians and the Kushite capital was relocated to Meroë. Even after this move, Napata continued to be the kingdom's primary religious...
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  • of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the first half of the 2nd century BCE. Tabirqo's name is known only from his tomb, Beg. N 9 in Meroë. Tabirqo's relationship...
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  • century CE) of the kingdom of Kush. During the Meroitic period, the city of Meroe, located at Upper Nubia and about 200 km north of Khartoum, was the political...
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    palaeoclimatic issues. p. 18 Claude Rilly (2007). La langue du royaume de Méroé, Un panorama de la plus ancienne culture écrite d’Afrique subsaharienne...
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    Egyptian civilization significantly influenced the Kingdom of Kush and Meroë with both adopting Egyptian religious and architectural norms (hundreds...
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    as 2300 BC. Egyptians introduced copper smelting to the Nubian city of Meroë in present-day Sudan c. 2600 BC. A furnace for bronze casting found in Kerma...
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    Left: The Meroë Head of Augustus, bronze Roman portraiture bust from Meroë, Kingdom of Kush (Nubia, modern Sudan), 27–25 BC Right: The faience head of...
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    "Iron Smelting in Sudan: Experimental Archaeology at The Royal City of Meroe". Journal of Field Archaeology. 43 (5): 399. doi:10.1080/00934690.2018.1479085...
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    Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2018. "Meroe Park Joins Butterfield Board". Butterfield Bank. October 6, 2017. Archived...
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    mausoleums in North America List of pyramids in Ireland List of Pyramids of Meroe List of tallest pyramids List of megalithic sites List of the oldest buildings...
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