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	Meroë - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meroë is the name of an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile 16.88° N 33.72° E about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, ca.
		Meroë was the capital of the Kushite Kingdom or Meroitic Empire that spanned the period c.800 BCE - 300 CE.
		Meroë was probably also an alternative name for the city of Napata, the ancient capital of one of the Kushite kingdoms, built at the foot of Jebel Barkal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meroe (656 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Sudan - Meroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The pharaonic tradition persisted among a line of rulers at Meroe, who raised stelae to record the achievements of their reigns and erected pyramids to contain their tombs.
		Meroe's succession system was not necessarily hereditary; the matriarchal royal family member deemed most worthy often became king.
		Although Napata remained Meroe's religious center, northern Cush eventually fell into disorder as it came under pressure from the Blemmyes, predatory nomads from east of the Nile.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/sudan/4.php (617 words)

	Meroitic period
		There was obviously a brusque trade between Meroe and Egypt and even beyond, since numerous Greek and Roman object have been found at Meroe: a wine jar from one of the royal tombs, in fact, is stamped with a mark indicating it had come from a region of Algeria.
		Scanty, but certainly accurate accounts of the capital Meroe have come down to us in the works of Pliny and Strabo, both of whom had at their disposal the reports of the team of explorers sent to Meroe by Nero about 60 AD to seek the source of the Nile.
		Pliny stated that Meroe was in an area where the grass became greener where scrub forest first began to appear and where elephants and rhinoceros could be seen in small numbers.
	numibia.net /nubia/meroe.htm (2230 words)

	THE 1905-1907 BREASTED EXPEDITIONS TO EGYPT AND THE SUDAN - Meroe
		Meroe, Pyramid of a King, Perhaps the Husband of Nahirqa, Pyramid N8, P 2877.
		Meroe, Pyramid of a Prince, Perhaps Sherakarer, Son of Natakamani, N10, P 2879.
		Meroe, Chapel and Pyramid of Tarekenidal, Nl9, from the Southeast, P 2911.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/MUS/PA/EGYPT/BEES/IMAGES/BEES_MEROE.html (1507 words)

	Bible History
		Thus, on the largest sepulchral pyramid near Assour, the ancient Meroe (see Cailliaud, plate xlvi), a female warrior, with the royal ensigns on her head, drags forward a number of captives as offerings to the gods; on another compartment she is in a warlike habit, about to destroy the same group.
		The chief city in it was the ancient Meroe, situated on the island or tract of the same name, between the Nile and Ashtaboras, not far from the modern Shendi Robinson's Calmet.
		Meroe, the island between the "rivers" Nile and Astaboras is meant, famed for its commerce, and perhaps the seat of the Ethiopian government, hence addressed here as representing the whole empire.
	www.gospelgazette.com /gazette/2001/dec/page2.htm (2959 words)

	Chapter 7: Lesson 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The city of Meroë was once the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Kush.
		Meroë became a great city, the center of Kushite culture.
		Meroë was a good choice for the new capital of Kush.
	www.newton.mec.edu /oakhill/sixtwo/message/ch7l4.htm (2588 words)

	Ancient Sudan: (aka The Kingdom of Kush & Ancient Nubia), City of Meroë
		At Meroë the kandake system of government made the Queen Mother the central political figure, and the queens were either the principal ruler or at least equal to their husbands as co-ruler.
		This was associated with the eventual rise of the port towns to become the independent state of Axum, which contributed to the demise of Meroë in 325 A.D. The Lion Temple of Naqa.
		The Island of Meroe must have been crisscrossed by many caravan routes and it was also the starting-point for caravans to the Red Sea region, northern Ethiopia, Kordofan and Darfur.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/kush.html (1656 words)

	Meroë, Royal Baths
		The ancient town of Meroë was the capital of the empire of Kush.
		It is situated in the modern Sudan approximately 130 miles north of the modern metropolis of Khartoum.
		Meroë in the third century for about 600 years became the last capital of the empire of Kush.
	www.dainst.org /index_2963_en.html (953 words)

	Wonders of the African World - Episodes - Black Kingdoms of the Nile - Wonders
		Forty generations of Nubian royalty are buried in Meroë, and every royal Nubian tomb is housed within a pyramid.
		Meroitic pyramids are smaller and differ in architecture from Egyptian pyramids; the largest Nubian pyramid, with a base of 170 feet, is that of Taharqa, compared with the 750-foot base of Cheops' pyramid at Giza.
		Meroë is also famed for its massive iron production, the first large-scale industry of its kind in the Nile Valley.
	www.pbs.org /wonders/Episodes/Epi1/1_wondr4.htm (301 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		Meroe's wealth was partly based on trade and commerce, particularly after the Second Century when the camel was introduced to Africa and there was a flourishing of caravan routes across the continent.
		As Meroe became more distanced from Egypt, so too was the Egyptian language replaced as the spoken language of the court.
		The Kingdom of Meroe began to fade as a power by the first or second century AD, sapped by war with Roman Egypt and the decline of its traditional industries.
	bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/3chapter4.shtml (931 words)

	Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire: Chapter III. Ancient Ethiopia, The Land
		Meroe was the seat of a great caravan route from the north of Africa.
		Meroe, the hundred gated Thebes, Jupiter-Ammon, and the oracles in Lybia and Greece were woven with the most ancient Greek myths.
		Meroe had an army of 250,000 trained men and 400,000 artisans when her rule reached Syria.
	www.sacred-texts.com /afr/we/we06.htm (2967 words)

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		While there was undoubtedly a shift of the capital from Napata to Meroe, I am convinced that the change was a gradual one, and that in everything but the burial place of the kings and the observances of the Amon cult, it took place much earlier than was formerly supposed.
		When the growing economic importance of Meroe induced the kings to spend an increasing part of their time there, and eventually to govern from that city, they doubtless began also to marry women from the Meroitic aristocracy in additon to wives from their own Napatan clan.
		It is important to note that the inscriptions which document the presence of Anlamani and his immediate successors at Meroe are coterminous with the inscriptions of Yesruwamen on the lion statues at Napata.
	www.kent.net /DisplacedDynasties/Napatan_and_Meroitic_Kingdoms.htm (3699 words)

	The Mysteries Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By about 300 BC the center of the kingdom had shifted south to the Meroë region in central Sudan, where the pyramids and tombs were built to house the bodies of their kings and queens.
		All the tombs at Meroë have been plundered, most infamously by Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini (1800-1870) who smashed the tops off 40 pyramids in a quest for treasure in the 1820s.
		Meroë belongs to the most important monuments of the beginning of civilization on the African continent.
	www.hiddenmysteries.org /mysteries/pyramid/nubian.html (1145 words)

	AllRefer.com - MeroE (Ancient History, Egypt) - Encyclopedia
		B.C., MeroE replaced Napata as the central city of the Cushite dynasty and from 530
		A.D. 350 served as the capital of the dynasty.
		B.C., MeroE was a major center for iron smelting.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Meroe.html (196 words)

	Kush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other historians believe it was the attraction of iron working that drove the kingdom south: around Meroe, unlike Napata, there were large forests that could fire the blast furnaces.
		In around 300 BC the move to Meroe was made more complete as the monarchs began to be buried there, instead of at Napata.
		While earlier Kush had used Egyptian hieroglyphics, Meroe developed a new script and began to write in the Meroitic language, which has yet to be fully deciphered.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Kush (1234 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Herodotus distinguishes four "Ethiopian countries" with the common capital Meroe in the territory of the Nile Ethiopia.
		He differentiates the population of Ethiopia into "Ethiopians bordering upon Egypt" (the inhabitants of the island of Takompso and the nomads grazing their herds on the shores of "a great lake" surrounding the island), those who dwell about the sacred mountain of Nysa, Macrobians, and the "Egyptian Deserters".
		The principal event in the political history of Meroe in the period under consideration is the Ethiopian campaign of Cambyses II.
	www.arkamani.org /meroiticarusa/Bauer.htm (683 words)

	Kush (Napata and Meroe)
		The Kingdom of Meroe lay to the south of Egypt and was the successor to the earlier state of Kush.
		Meroe's merchants traded with their northern neighbor, Egypt, and with other cultures through towns on the Red Sea, such as Massawa.
		At first, Meroe was strongly influenced by Egyptian culture but gradually, the inhabitants adapted Egyptian hieroglyphs and culture to fit their own needs.
	www.geocities.com /mariamnephilemon/names/libya/kush.html (857 words)

	The Institute for Urban and Minority Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As an AERA/OERI Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Meroe is applying qualitative and quantitative methods to an abiding interest in social cognition, everyday modes and practices of rationality, and ethnic minority student achievement.
		Meroe is the co-author/editor of papers on such topics as supplementary education, school vouchers, meritocracy and minority student achievement and has conducted ethnographic research with schoolchildren of color between grades K-12.
		Meroe's current research interests include sociocultural and existential dimensions of academic development and performance; students' everyday rationales and sense-making strategies; and the ethical/value orientations and implicit logics of academic achievement ideologies.
	iume.tc.columbia.edu /staffcv.asp?id=17 (305 words)

	Meroë on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BC, Meroë replaced Napata as the central city of the Cushite dynasty and from 530 BC until AD 350 served as the capital of the dynasty.
		BC, Meroë was a major center for iron smelting.
		Among Meroë's extensive ruins are royal palaces (6th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Meroe.asp (425 words)

	Meroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For an ancient city and civilization that flourished for nearly a thousand years, Meroe is one of archaeology’s greatest mysteries.
		The first outsider to mention Meroe specifically was Herodotus, a Greek, in approximately 430 B.C. Herodotus visited Africa, and although he never made it as far south as Meroe, he was told by the natives about the existence of a magnificent city to the south.
		After these few, faint accounts of Meroe, no additional information of the city was recorded and it was virtually forgotten about until recent times when European travelers and archaeologists explored this region.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/meroe.html (551 words)

	Comparing the religions of Egypt and Meroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Amun of Meroe was associated with crocodiles on bronze seals.
		When the capital was moved to Meroe from Napata, the cult of Amun does not seem to have made as big an impression in the southern part of Nubia.
		At the south east border of Meroe, at Gebel Qeili, is a depiction of King Shorkaror receiving gifts of millet, sorghum and slaves from a Hellenised version of the god Apedemak.
	www.theancientegyptians.com /RelEgyptMeroe.htm (2436 words)

	Kush, Meroe and Nubia
		Nobatia in the north, also known as Ballanah, had its capital at Faras, in what is now Egypt; the central kingdom, Muqurra, was centered at Dunqulah, the old city on the Nile about 150 kilometers south of modern Dunqulah; and Alwa, in the heartland of old Meroe in the south, had its capital at Sawba.
		In all three kingdoms, warrior aristocracies ruled Meroitic populations from royal courts where functionaries bore Greek titles in emulation of the Byzantine court.
		Because women transmitted the right to succession, a renowned warrior not of royal birth might be nominated to become king through marriage to a woman in line of succession.
	unx1.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Sudan.html (2796 words)

	GN Online: Sudan's ancient pyramids bait for adventurous tourists
		In the mid-6th century BC Meroe became the central city of the ancient Nubian Cushite dynasty, the "Black Pharaohs", who ruled some 2,500 years ago in the area from Aswan in southern Egypt to present-day Khartoum.
		The Nubians were at times both rivals and allies of the ancient Egyptians and adopted many of their northern neighbours' practices, including burying members of the royal family in pyramid tombs.
		The tarmac road to Meroe was built only a few years ago, and a long, bumpy dirt track is still the only way to access Al Musawwarat and Naga.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=113657 (540 words)

	WP - Adaarah
		Meroe set a high value on independence, her own and others', and was largely incapable of expressing strong emotional attachments.
		Of her,grandchildren, Meroe was fondest of Piri, mostly because of their strong physical resemblance, which was even more marked after Meroe's hair grew back in white after an illness.
		It pleased Meroe's vanity to have the younger elf attend functions with her as a "matched set," and she made quite a pet of the girl.
	towermountain.net /meroe.htm (938 words)

	Baxter's EduNET - Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She wins the first battle, and in spite of losing a second battle, the Romans had had enough, agreed to a truce and went back home.
		Rome never did conquer Meroe, and the kingdom survived as the most powerful Black African state in east Africa for another 200 years.
		Actually "queendom" would be more accurate, since the leader of Meroe was usually a warrior queen, called a "kandake" (which means "queen mother") or more simply "gore" (meaning "ruler").
	www.edunetconnect.com /cat/timemachine/2000ea.html (214 words)

	ROM - NEAC Projects: Meroe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1999 a joint ROM-University of Khartoum expedition to Meroe was formed to explore and protect the ruins of the ancient capital of the Sudan.
		Research in Egypt and Sudan has been funded in part by grants from the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation and private donors.
		Meroe, clearing the entrance to the Amun Temple
	www.rom.on.ca /neac/meroe.html (131 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE
		Near Meroë is the confluence of the Astaboras [modern Atbara], the Astapus [the White Nile], and of the Astasobas [Blue Nile].
		Neither are the Ethiopians, who extend towards the south and Meroë, numerous nor collected in a body; for they inhabit a long, narrow, and winding tract of land on the riverside, such as we have before described; nor are they well prepared either for war or the pursuit of any other mode of life.
		In Meroë the priests anciently held the highest rank, an sometimes sent orders even to the king, by a messenger, to put an end to himself; when they appointed another keeper, in his place.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/nubia1.html (8010 words)

	Sudan Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meroe is in North Sudan and was home to a kingdom a very long time ago.
		The people in Meroe told me that during the late 1800s a group of Italians thought that maybe there was gold stowed away deep in these pyramids as there was in the pyramids in Egypt if I'm not mistaken.
		Once thing that I thought was interesting about Meroe I found in a book that a friend of mine from Marburg is writing about Sudan's history.
	stud-www.uni-marburg.de /~Stevens/sudan_pictures.htm (616 words)

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