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Barbarians at the gates? the royal mounds of El Hobagi and the end of Meroë

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Patrice Lenoble  and
Nigm ed Din Mohammed Sharif
Patrice Lenoble
Affiliation:
Ambassade de France à Khartoum, 128 bis rue de l'Université, F-75351 Paris 07 SP, France
Nigm ed Din Mohammed Sharif
Affiliation:
PO Box 1260, Khartoum, Sudan
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Meroë, capital of Ethiopian kings up to the first centuries AD, is an extraordinary culture. Its inscriptions are in its own Meroitic script or in Egyptian or sometimes in Greek – a reminder of its links through Egypt to the larger Mediterranean world nearly 2000 kilometres to the north. And what about the end of Meroeë Did it collapse to barbarians? Or did it take its own course?

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 626 - 635
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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