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Book SynopsisAssesses recent historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. These ten thought-provoking essays demonstrate that this large region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic in antiquity, a place where Phoenicians, Berbers, Greeks, as well as Egyptians and Nubians interacted.
Table of ContentsAfroasiatic / Carleton T. Hodge -- Egypt and Nubia : Old, Middle, and New Kingdom eras / Frank J. Yurco -- Egypt and the Kushites : Dynasty XXV / Edna R. Russmann -- The Kingdom of Meroe / Stanley M. Burstein -- The Ballaana kingdom and culture : twilight of classical Nubia / William Y. Adams -- The Berbers of the Maghreb and ancient Carthage / Reuben G. Bullard -- An archaeological survey of the Cyrenaican and Marmarican regions of northeast Africa / Donald White -- Attitudes towards Blacks in the Greek and Roman world : misinterpretations of the evidence / Frank M. Snowden, Jr. -- Some remarks on the processes of state formation in Egypt and Ethiopia / Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich -- Colonizing the past : origin myths of the great Zimbabwe ruins / Maynard W. Swanson.
