Warrior Queens of Nubia (The Show Notes)

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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

Gold Miners on the Trail of the Earliest Humans in Eastern Saharan Africa. Investigating the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Sudanese Nubia: Journal of African Archaeology

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”

Pusch Komiete Commey: Seven Amazing African Queens and Dynasties: Bring me the head of the Roman Emperor

Samia Dafa’alla: Succession in the Kingdom of Napata, 900-300 B.C.

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