The Kingdom of Kush
Thursday evenings, 6-7:30pm (UK Time), 3rd April-1st May 2025 plus recordings!
This five-week course will focus on the Kushite Kingdom, which developed in the 8th Century BCE in the 4th Cataract region of modern Sudan and lasted over a thousand years until c. 350 CE. From its early kings, who conquered Egypt and followed archaising forms of Egyptian art in their construction and iconography, to its later developments of an indigenous writing system and warrior queens fighting Roman and desert armies, we will explore this fascinating kingdom and how it changed and developed over its long history.
We will assess the textual sources available that give a rare voice direct from Kush as well as evidence from its neighbours, and look at how the Kushites used Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman iconography to express indigenous belief systems. The course will in particular look at evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork to put Kushite material culture into a wide context and increasing evidence pointing to the diversity of this ancient kingdom.
Find out more: https:\/\/www.ees.ac.uk\/whats-on\/events\/the-kingdom-of-kush.html
No prior knowledge of the area is needed, as we will cover all key concepts across the course. The course will suit all with an interest in archaeology, and particularly those familiar with ancient Egypt and looking to further understand its closest neighbour. It will also be particularly relevant to those who took the EES Online Course: South of Aswan: The Archaeology of Sudan & Nubia and are looking to deepen their knowledge of the Kushite Period.
Those taking the course will benefit most from it if they have some general knowledge of the main historical developments of the period, but specific knowledge of the documents of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt is not required.
Book your place: https:\/\/www.ees.ac.uk\/whats-on\/events\/the-kingdom-of-kush.html
Tutor: Dr Loretta Kilroe completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2019 and now works as the Project Curator for Sudan and Nubia at the British Museum. Her Doctoral dissertation focused on comparing the distribution and use of pilgrim flasks between New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia. She has excavated at several sites in Sudan including Amara West, H25 and Kurgus, and is the Honorary Secretary for the Sudan Archaeological Research Society
This five-week course will focus on the Kushite Kingdom, which developed in the 8th Century BCE in the 4th Cataract region of modern Sudan and lasted over a thousand years until c. 350 CE. From its early kings, who conquered Egypt and followed archaising forms of Egyptian art in their construction and iconography, to its later developments of an indigenous writing system and warrior queens fighting Roman and desert armies, we will explore this fascinating kingdom and how it changed and developed over its long history.
We will assess the textual sources available that give a rare voice direct from Kush as well as evidence from its neighbours, and look at how the Kushites used Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman iconography to express indigenous belief systems. The course will in particular look at evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork to put Kushite material culture into a wide context and increasing evidence pointing to the diversity of this ancient kingdom.
Find out more: https:\/\/www.ees.ac.uk\/whats-on\/events\/the-kingdom-of-kush.html
No prior knowledge of the area is needed, as we will cover all key concepts across the course. The course will suit all with an interest in archaeology, and particularly those familiar with ancient Egypt and looking to further understand its closest neighbour. It will also be particularly relevant to those who took the EES Online Course: South of Aswan: The Archaeology of Sudan & Nubia and are looking to deepen their knowledge of the Kushite Period.
Those taking the course will benefit most from it if they have some general knowledge of the main historical developments of the period, but specific knowledge of the documents of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt is not required.
Book your place: https:\/\/www.ees.ac.uk\/whats-on\/events\/the-kingdom-of-kush.html
Tutor: Dr Loretta Kilroe completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2019 and now works as the Project Curator for Sudan and Nubia at the British Museum. Her Doctoral dissertation focused on comparing the distribution and use of pilgrim flasks between New Kingdom Egypt and Nubia. She has excavated at several sites in Sudan including Amara West, H25 and Kurgus, and is the Honorary Secretary for the Sudan Archaeological Research Society
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