Lost Kingdom of Africa is a series on that continent and the Nubia episode which aired on TVO yesterday was an excellent way to begin to understand the role of the ancient Nubians.
TVO describes Nubia in the following way.
Nubia, in now what is Northern Sudan, dominated a vast area of the eastern Sahara for thousands of years. Its people were described as barbarians and mercenaries, and yet Nubia has left us some of the most spectacular monuments in the world. Gus Gasely-Hayford discovers that its kings once ruled Ancient Egypt and that it was defeated not by its rivals but by its environment.
After watching the TVO programs on early kings of Nubia and their influence on Egypt I'm left with many curious questions about the Rock Gongs, the rock paintings recently discovered, the mud buildings and palaces of Kush, the old archeological sites around Khartoum, including Karma, Jebel Barkal, and Meroé.
And there are more question such has ;
Did the Nubian priest caste learn their burial rituals and build their mud mounds by standards learned in Egypt, or did the Egyptians learn their mound building skills from the inhabitants who lived at the forks of the blue nile and white nile?
The end result shows that the Nubia tribes moved with climate changes. Were they moving always towards the south or did they disperse north and south in tribes ??? After thousands of years of interactions with Egyptians, Arabians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, and others, they were all but forgotten except for the archeological artifacts and monuments that lay scattered along the Nile and in the desert proper.
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