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‘The end of Meroë’ – a comment on the paper by Patrice Lenoble & Nigm el Din Mohamed Sharif

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

P. L. Shinnie
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
J. H. Robertson
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Mount Royal College, 4825 Richard Road SW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3E 6K6

Extract

Issue is taken with the view offered in a 1992 ANTIQUITY paper of the later history of this Sudanese kingdom.

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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