Warrior Queens of Nubia (The Show Notes)
Here are our sources for this episode. First some YouTube videos we found helpful:
New Scientist: Why Ancient Nubia is Finally Emerging from Egypt’s Long Shadow
The Geography of Strabo (Horace Leonard Jones translation)
BlackHistoryMonth.org: Nubia and the Noba people
Egypt.Museum.com: Model of Nubian Archers
TourEgypt.com: The Inscriptions of Weni
The Library of History of Diodorus Siculus (C.H. Oldfather Translation)
Łukasz Zieliński: New Insights into Nubian Archery
The Queer Classicist: The Kandakes of Kush: Warrior Queens of Ancient Africa
Julien Cooper: KUSHITES EXPRESSING ‘EGYPTIAN’ KINGSHIP
Mark Milligan: Kerma – The Ancient African Kingdom. Heritage Daily
The British Museum: Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush
J. Sisgaud: NUBIAN QUEENS AND WARRIORS, THE KANDAKES – MIGHTY WOMEN OF AFRICA
Dan’El Khan: “The Queen Mother in the Kingdom of Kush: Status, Power and Cultic Role”
Samia Dafa’alla: Succession in the Kingdom of Napata, 900-300 B.C.
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