The Kingdom of Kush, lying south of Egypt, flourished for 1000 years. During the eighth and seventh centuries BC its rulers controlled Egypt as pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty. Yet much of the history of the kingdom is obscure, with it being overshadowed by its more famous neighbour. Using both ancient classical sources and modern data from archaeological digs, this work explores the history and culture of the Kushites. It illustrates all aspects of life and shows how the kingdom interacted over the centuries with Egypt.
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The Kingdom of Kush, lying south of Egypt, flourished for 1000 years. During the eighth and seventh centuries BC its rulers controlled Egypt as pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty. Yet much of the history of the kingdom is obscure, with it being overshadowed by its more famous neighbour. Using both ancient classical sources and modern data from archaeological digs, this work explores the history and culture of the Kushites. It illustrates all aspects of life and shows how the kingdom interacted over the centuries with Egypt.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Book First edition, first printing, hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt titles. 240 pages. 81 B&W illustrations and 12 color plates, maps. Acknowledgments, appendix: The Rulers of Kush; notes, abbreviations, bibliogfraphy, index. Very good with bottom corners very lightly bumped, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. "The Kingdom of Kush, lying to the south of Egypt, upstream of the first Nile cataract, flourished for a thousand years, " and in this book Derek Welsby "uses both the ancient classical sources and modern data from archaeological excavations to illustrate all expects of Kushite life and to show how the kingdom interacred over the centuries with Egypt."
Add this copy of The Kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic Empires to cart. $233.36, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press.
