ABSTRACT
This, the first volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s The History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, first published in 1928, presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540.
Using a vast range of sources – Greek and Roman reports, Biblical passages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ethiopian chronicles – an enthralling narrative history is presented with clarity. This reissue will be of particular interest to students of Ancient Egyptian culture, religion and history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
south to open up the country. This distinguished man held many offices under the king, for being one of the feudal lords of Ele-phantine and Syene, and governor of the South, his authority over the Nubians was great. He was also a caravan master" and it was through him that many of the products of Nubia entered Egypt VIth Dynasty; he was probably acquainted with the He made
for the lighters and barges which Una made to transport granite Memphis. There is little doubt that Uauat was a part of Lower or Northern Nubia, but the positions of the other places mentioned above are not known. Merenra's interest in Nubia being great, he sent I:Ierkhuf to the
chapter |1 pages
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Mehi II. Maa I:Ietkhent QrfTh. This division of the country was probably very ancient, but whether it was preserved under the late Nubian kings is doubtful. In 1915-17 Reisner, Director of the Harvard-Boston Expedition
chapter |20 pages
of the wealth of the Sudan by means of "peaceful penetration." into" higher Africa." He passed over a high mountain that of Nubia, was brought up at the court of at Alexandria, and that he was trained in the Grecian at least over the gold mines
THE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD There is no evidence that the Ptolemies waged war against the Nubians, or raided their country, although they were fully aware that slaves, gold, ebony and ivory came from the regions south of Philae, but it seems that they endeavoured to obtain possession ~ emanation ~ Ra, Arq -Amen, . everliving be- ~ I ":"UJ ~ loved of ISIS. Whether as a result of this intercourse with the Greeks, or whether it was due to his natural independence is not clear, but he set a precedent in the history of his country which is remarkable. priests of Amen at Meroe (N apata?) had supreme power, and
chapter |7 pages
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