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The Forgotten Aksumite Invasion of Meroe

The Forgotten Aksumite Invasion of Meroe

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In the mid-4th century CE, the kingdom of Kush vanished from history. Its capital Meroe was sacked, its pyramids abandoned, its script lost for 2,000 years. The culprit wasn't Rome or the rising Arab armies — it was the kingdom of Aksum, in modern-day Ethiopia. This episode follows the trail of a single inscription: the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument that records a brutal campaign into Kush by King Ezana, who boasted of burning Meroe's cities and destroying its gods. Lucas and Luna explore how Aksum's rise as a Red Sea trading power collided with a weakened, isolated Meroe, the mystery of the Blemmyes and Noba peoples, and the likelihood that Kush didn't fall all at once but faded into the Nubian kingdoms that followed. They also look at why the Ezana Stone is one of the most important — and overlooked — artifacts in African history, and how it parallels the Rosetta Stone as a key to a dead language. #Meroe #Aksum #Ezana #Kush #Nubia #EzanaStone #Blemmyes #Noba #Meroitic #RedSea #4thCentury #ClassicalAfricanHistory #Archaeology #Inscription #Axum #Ethiopia #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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