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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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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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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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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List of monarchs of Kush (redirect from King of Meroë)
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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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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Le fléau (redirect from L'empire de Méroé)
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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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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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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Amanirenas (section Meroë Head)
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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Syrtis Major Planum (redirect from Meroe Patera)
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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soldier turned treasure hunter, who robbed and desecrated the pyramids of Meroë. Born in Bologna, in 1815 he travelled across Greece, and later he reached...
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century CE) of the Kingdom of Kush. During the Meroitic period, the city of Meroë, located at Upper Nubia and about 200 km north of Khartoum, was the political...
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destroyed the kingdom of Meroë, others say that archaeological evidence points to an economic and political decline in Meroë around 300. Moreover, some...
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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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from Syene to Meroë is five thousand stadia. And when you have proceeded about three thousand stadia in a straight line south of Meroë, the country is...
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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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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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the Kingdom of Kush, early 1st century CE Relief of a ruler, a Candace of Meroë named Kandake Amanitore, 1st century CE Sculpture in present-day Latin America...
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include Lucan's Erichtho, Horace's Canidia, Ovid's Dipsas, and Apuleius's Meroe. By the early modern period, major witch hunts and witch trials began to...
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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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Licinius, establishing his sole control over the Empire. c. 330 Sack of Meroe Kingdom of Axum under King Ezana sack the capital of the Kingdom of Kush...
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