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When Roman Egypt got here underneath assault from the Kushites in what’s now Sudan, the Roman forces answered by way of destroying a Kushite town – or so we concept
By Colin Barras
The ultimate status pillars of Napata’s temple of Amun in Sudan
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An excavation in northern Sudan suggests there have been limits to the army may of the Roman Empire – even though the Romans weren’t ready to confess them. The imperial forces claimed they destroyed an historic town managed by way of their enemies, however it seems they didn’t.
Following the downfall and dying of Cleopatra in 30 BC, Egypt turned into a province of the rising Roman Empire. But Roman Egypt was once reasonably vulnerable to…