Iron and the river roads

Black heaps of slag still stand beside the ruins of Meroë, the royal city of Kush. In 1912 a British scholar called it “the Birmingham of ancient Africa”. Follow the evidence instead: a furnace rebuilt and fired again, ninety-seven radiocarbon dates, an old myth about how Africa learned iron, a king’s road across the desert, and the goods that went north along the Nile. Read it with pictures and sources: https://afromythos.com/empires/meroe-iron