Autor(en)

Shinnie, P. L.:

Verlag / Jahr

Khartoum: Sudan Antiquities Service, 1954.

Format / Einband

Brochure, 21 cm. 18 pp., 9 fig., 1 map.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 250 g

Bestell-Nr

1280135

Bemerkungen

From the Estate of the Diplomat and Orientalist Prof. Dr. Werner Daum (1943-2025). - Cover stained, slightly browned due to paper, otherwisse clean. - The conversion of the Nubian peoples to Christianity in the sixth century A.D. began a period of cultural and political advance in the Sudan, and gave cohesion to the riverain kingdoms already existing before the arrival of the missionaries. Combining with the underlying native culture, new elements from the Mediterranean produced an intellectual and artistic activity, shown in the archaeological remains, which contradicts the impression of barbarism gained from reading the mainly hostile Arabic accounts of the country. The period, which lasted in different areas for nearly 1,000 years, is a period of Sudan history little studied, and often dismissed as of little account. A study of the literary and archaeological remains, however, shows it to have been a time of flowering of artistic endeavour and of political power, with an important and interesting history which has left a permanent mark on the country, and helped to form the characteristic riverain culture of the northern Sudan. During this time the kingdom of Nubia was a power and its kings treated as equals with those of Egypt and other countries of the Near East.

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