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Newly discovered Sudan statues show ancient script
BBC News
Three ancient statues, engraved with a little-understood sub-Saharan language, have been unearthed in Sudan.
The ram statues symbolise the god Amun, and include the first discovery of a complete royal dedication in Meroitic script, only found before in fragments.
It is the oldest written sub-Saharan language and dates from the Meroe period of 300BC to AD450.
Archaeologist Vincent Rondot said it was "an important discovery", but the inscriptions were hard to interpret.The statues were discovered three weeks ago at el-Hassa, a site close to Sudan's 50-odd Meroe pyramids, about 200 km (120 miles) north of the capital Khartoum.
Mr Rondot said: "It is one of the last antique languages that we still don't understand.
"We can read it. We have no problem pronouncing the letters. But we can't understand it, apart from a few long words and the names of people."
Experts are working on deciphering the inscriptions, using previously found fragments.
See the above page for the full story.
- Remains Of Anicent Palace Discovered In Meroe
LiveScience (Owen Jarus) Hidden beneath an ancient palace in what is now central Sudan, archaeologists have discovered the oldest building in the city of Meroë, a structure that also may have housed royalty. The capital of a vast empire that flourished...
- The Mysteries Of Meroe
New York Times (Souren Melikian) Agatha Christie could have invented the story. Imagine another Egypt, with a marked black African component. This is Meroe, in present-day Sudan. In art, ancient Egyptian deities appear alongside others, unknown elsewhere....
- Travel: Secret Of The Nile (nubia)
The National “The road is tough,” Aiyman, my 30-year-old driver, said with a grin, as we hammered over another bump on a dirt track on the southern edge of the Saharan desert. I’m not sure what he was grinning at, except possibly the ridiculousness...
- Ancient Building Uncovered At Meroe
The site of the ancient city of Meroe in the Sudan was originally discovered before world war one by famous archaeologist John Garstang who unfortunately never published his findings. Now archaeologist working on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum have...
- Statues In The Sudan
Here is another article on those statues found in the Sudan. The remarkable things is their location far south of where other Kushite material has been found. The fragments make up four statues which appear to have been ritually broken. The most important...