The kandakes

Around 25 BC an army from Kush took Aswan and pulled down the statues of Rome’s new emperor. Follow the queens of Meroë: a title the Romans mistook for a name, a war told from both sides, an emperor’s head buried under a temple step, a queen carved as large as her king, and the women who carried their name into Khartoum’s streets in 2019. Read it with pictures and sources: https://afromythos.com/empires/kandakes