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Nubia has always been home to the best defended cities in Africa. Reconstructions of Kerma will show you the walls and bastions that surround the main settlement, but typically not the vast systems of ditches/moats up to 23ft deep that were dug around the key parts of the city.

although not an undeciphered script, there's an inscription in qoḥayn (säraye, eritrea) of an undeciphered and unclassified language (resembles no languages in the region) dated to the reign of king ʿezana, known locally as ṣǝḥuf ʾǝmni.

Stunning calciform beaker from Kadada, Sudan, dated to 3600BC.

Would love to see if Pastoral Neolithic samples carry -14010*C and when exactly it developed

malandro it looks like you were right the tihama coast red sea culture really was Cushitic. It seems like semetic speakers did a great replacement of Cushitic speakers in the Arabian peninsula.

Stele depicting the king of Kerma wielding a bow, arrow, and club & wearing crown of Upper Egypt. By 1500 BC, Kerma ruled from Elephantine in Egypt to the 4th Cataract and possibly controlled lands as far as Yam and Punt. At its height, it was arguably Africa’s first empire.

The palace of the Kingdom of Kerma. Built next to the city gates, it included a large throne room, grain silos, a porticoed terrace, a courtyard, a room with 1000s of blocks of sealing clay - used for sealing of royal messages - and housed a permanent military contingent.

“To be of the greatest disgrace for a man to cling to life when he is unable to accomplish anything worth living for” 😔 Since when were early cushites so brutal

Cope. Of those 10,000 years, half was spent raiding as psychopathic nomads, 30% as peasant militia an only very recently was man domesticated. The idea that farmer were always militarily inept serfs is silly - the greatest army of the early Iron Age consisted of off-duty farmers.

Found a reconstruction of the first image. Kerman art had a very unique style, similar but different to the overly-idealised Egyptian style that it clearly drew inspiration from. Would love if anyone knows where I can get more, I find they're quite inaccessible.

For all the Kermaposting I do, I thought it would be a good idea to make a long form video on the era. I've got a good idea for what it'll look like, but it's way much to do in one go so it's gonna be in parts. Part 1 should be out very soonish on @/Kermatrix on YouTube.

Discovered in 2003, the tomb of 16th Dynasty governor Sobeknakht II details Kerma levying forces from Medjay, Punt, and Wawat in a major southern invasion of Egypt. Evidence suggests they reached as far north as the city of Asyut, 500km north of the border with Lower Nubia.

Incredible stuff. Wow.

955 CE: Sailors agree that the Sea of Barbars is one of the most dangerous seas If a ship lands on the coast, the inhabitants capture the crew and castrate them That is because, in their eyes, the ultimate sign of courage is for a man of their people to emasculate foreign men