Description: This book features easy access and cross-listing of multiple themes and topics related to the prehistory and ancient times in Nubia, Kerma, Kush, or Meroe until the end of the Meroitic and post-Meroitic times in the 4th and 5th centuries CE.
Review Quotes:
"This volume in the "Historical Dictionaries" series expands on previous iterations, which covered both ancient and medieval Nubia, to focus primarily on prehistoric and ancient times. Lobban, an Africanist anthropologist who has published extensively on this topic, thus centers this text "on the millennia of early humans along the Nile in the prehistoric Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras and written periods of Egyptian pharaonic interactions and the Kerma, Napatan, Meroitic, and X-Group civilizations" (p. xi). There is an extensive bibliography and 12 appendixes.... Also included are several maps of the Nile valley (line maps of the cataract areas) and a chronology. Recommended." --Choice Reviews
"This new reference book is focused on Medieval Christian Nubia and its historical and religious context. This descends from the former Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia (2004) that had combined both subjects, but new excavations and research have demanded a still deeper look at the often-neglected Christian civilizations on the Sudanese Nile. This is an extremely ample, comprehensive and deeper book by Lobban that neatly outlines and contextualizes the emergence and development of Christianity in Nubia. This region beyond the first cataract on the Nile contributed fundamentally to the development, continuity and distinctiveness of Mediterranean and African civilization evolving from the pre-Christian Greco-Roman period and evolved in the complex schisms within Christianity. This epoch was terminated by the rise of Islam in Sudan after almost 1,000 years, but actually lasted longer than the present period of Islam." --EUGENIO FANTUSATI, professor, International Association of the Study of the Mediterranean and the Orient (ISMEO), Rome