Africa boasts a rich and complex history ... which rose to prominence during the early first millennium B.C. The Kushites not only traded with Egypt but also conquered it. During the 25th Dynasty ...

It gave rise to one of Africa’s earliest civilizations ... the goddess of truth. Kushites believed this recorded a person’s good and bad deeds and determined if the king’s soul could ...

This perspective carries some colonial prejudice, overlooking the development of sophisticated civilization, industry and culture deeper within Africa. “One of the pitfalls of this kind of work is ...

one of Africa's earliest civilizations that flourished between the 8th century BCE and the 4th century CE. The Kushites emerged as a dominant force in the region in the 8th century BCE.

The Kushites fought battles and traded materials, such as gold, with their Egyptian neighbours. For many years, researchers had thought that the kingdom of Kush extended some 600 kilometres from ...

This episode in Africa's past has often been ignored but ... The great smelting tradition of the Kushite Kingdom of Meroe (around 500 BC) did not spread either further west or towards the south ...

“Africa is the birthplace of humankind itself ... even by the modern Sudanese themselves. And yet the Kushite kings built 1,000 pyramids, as well as some of Egypt’s monuments, among many ...

Emerging as a major power in the eighth century BCE within the region of Nubia – which stretched from Aswan in Egypt to Khartoum in Sudan – the Kushites even ruled over ancient Egypt during ...