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Bookmark or Share- In the Land of Kush - Smithsonian MagazineNo matter how many times you may visit, there is an awed sense of discovery. In Meroe itself, once the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, the road divides the city.
- Meroe: Sudan’s Ancient Lost City of The Sands - Historic Mysteries19th century Egyptologists searched for a lost ancient city on the Nile, powerful and wealthy. Meroe, rediscovered in 1821, turned out to be all that and more.
- Meroë - WikipediaMeroë ( / ˈmɛroʊiː /; [1] also spelled Meroe; [2] Meroitic: Medewi; Arabic: مرواه, romanized : Meruwah and مروي, Meruwi; Ancient Greek: Μερόη, romanized : Meróē) was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is a group of villages called ...
- The Meroe Head - World History EncyclopediaThe Meroe Head, so-called because it was found beneath a temple in the ruins of Meroe, is the head of a larger-than life statue of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (better known as Augustus Caesar) the first Emperor of Rome (reigned 31 BCE-14 CE). On 2 September 31 BCE Octavian Caesar (the future Augustus) defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of ...
- Meroë - World History EncyclopediaMeroe was a wealthy metropolis of the ancient kingdom of Kush in what is today the Republic of Sudan. It was the later capital of the Kingdom of Kush (c. 1069 BCE to c. 350 CE) after the earlier capital...
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