An entertaining read but littered with scholarly speculation about a long-lived culture that no-one really understands to any great depth because Meroitic Sudanese - like Sumerian - has yet to be fully-deciphered. Moreover, because the language is related to no other known written language, the origin of the Kushites themselves is equally unknown. A frustrating yet tantalizing mystery for so long-lived and potentially fascinating a culture on the southern doorstep of the more well-known and, thus, better-studied, Egyptian civilization. Its end as mysterious as its beginnings.
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