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@JrNatiki @MimiReeds @GioB1974 @alykhansatchu @hofrench @mininghistory @tommymiles @africaupdates @MikeStuchbery_ @ICCROM_King @DavidNdii @adam_tooze thnx 🙏🏾
i unfortunately had to shorten my references list by at least 20 citations
but i made sure not to exclude some of the really good books on Africa's military history
esp these four, highly recommended
engravings of chariots became more elaborate during the napatan and meroitic eras (1st pic)
however, of the several polychromatic paintings from kerma (2nd pic), it seems none were of triumphal nature like the above
300BC-200AD from karanog -meroitic era, kush
-stelae of a nubian couple; Meteye (white skirt with a swastika) and Abakharta
-offering table with meroitic inscriptions
-ivory and wood casket
painted cup man herding a cow
#randomxt
-Cairo museum
-Penn museum
14th cent.
illuminated manuscript of the four gospels created at a monastic centre in ethiopia
#randomxt
the world's oldest illuminated christian manuscripts were made in ethiopia in the 5th century, christianity became the aksumites' state religion in the 4th cent. under