Table of Contents

Introduction; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic; Neolithic; Pre-Kerma; Kerma and the Kerma Culture; Gold and man in the Eastern Desert; The Egyptians on the Middle Nile; Egyptians and Nubians; The Kingdom of Kush; Naqa and Kushite religion; The end of the Kushite state and the rise of the Nubian kingdoms; The medieval kingdoms of Nubia; Islam; Pottery production; Funerary culture; Bibliography; Glossary

About the Author

Derek Welsby is a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, The British Museum, and author of Kingdoms of Kush and Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia.