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  • 4 - The Nilotic Sudan and Ethiopia, c. 660 bc to c.ad 600

  • Edited by J. D. Fage
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 February 1979, pp 210-271

  • Summary

    The ancient Egyptians had entered what is now the northern Sudan, known to them as Kush, in about 1500 BC and had rapidly occupied it as far upstream as Kurgus, near to the modern Abu Hamed. Tanwetamani was the last of the kings of Kush to be buried in the ancestral cemetery at Kurru. By the middle of the fourth century, Aksum had become a considerable power and the court of the king had been Christianized. The inscriptions of Ezana, both in Greek and Ge'ez, the indigenous language and the forerunner of Amharic and Tigrinya, the main Semitic tongues of modern Ethiopia, are the main sources for knowledge of contact between Aksum and Meroe. Meroitic was the written language of the whole stretch of river over which the Meroitic kings ruled from at least as early as 200 BC until the fourth century AD.