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Here are resources for anyone who wants to know more about ancient Kush (Nubia).

Museums
Several North American museums have Kushite artifacts.

  • Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
  • Chicago: The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
  • Omaha: Josyln Art Museum (which has a statue of Princess Amonirdis).
  • Philadelphia: University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
  • Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum.


Websites
The Afterword to Rise of the Golden Cobra lists several scholarly translations of Piankhy’s stela. Other, more popular translations are available on the Internet. Search under “stela Piankhy” or “stela Piye.”The websites also provide historical information on Piankhy and his campaign.

Books
The following books are for younger readers:

  • Robert Bianchi, The Nubians (Brookfield, CN: Millbrook Press, 1994).
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wonders of the African World (Random House, 2001). This is the companion volume to an excellent PBS series of the same title. A commentary on series’ segment on Kush, “Black Kingdoms of the Nile,” is at: www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi1/nile.htm
  • Pamela F. Service, The Ancient Kingdom of Kush (New York: Benchmark Books, 1998).
  • Liz Sonneborn, The Ancient Kushites (New York, Scholastic Inc. /Franklin Watts, 2005.

The following books are for readers of senior high-school readers and up:

  • Henry T. Aubin, The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance between Africans and Hebrews in 701 B.C. (New York: Soho Press, and Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002). This is the only book that deals with the Assyrian threat at the time of Piankhy.
  • László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (Leiden-New York-Köln, 1997). This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date, but it is really for scholars.
  • Robert G. Morkot, The Black Pharaohs (Edmonton: Rubicon Press, 2000).
  • P.L. Shinnie, Ancient Nubia (London: Kegan Paul, 1996).
  • Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush (London: British Museum, 1996).
  • For an article on Kush by a brilliant archaeologist, see “Discoveries at Sudan’s Sacred Mountain of Jebel Barkal,” by Timothy Kendall, in The National Geographic, November 1990.