Mysterious Church And Palace From 1st Millennium AD Discovered In Sudan

Naukapl.pap ^ | 4-12-2008 | Warsaw University Centre of Meditterranean Archaeology

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Judith Anne]

Meroe as related to Merovingian?

(Sorry if that’s an ignorant comment, it just occurred to me and I wondered.)

[TASMANIANRED]

No telling the wonders the sands conceal.

[Tzimisce]

cool

[fish hawk]

“Like sands through the hour glass, so are the days of our life.”

[blam]

"Meroe as related to Merovingian?"

Don't know either. Someone will be along shortly and educate us both.

[Captain Rhino]

It would take some pretty imaginitive cogitation to make the connection.

Meroe: 8th century BC to 3rd Centruy AD (Nubia (N. Sudan - S. Egypt))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meroe

Merovingian: mid-5th to mid-8th century AD (Gaul (France))

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian

[TXnMA]

"Someone will be along shortly..."

Couldn't resist... ;-)

Merovingian Dynasty - Crystalinks
The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area in parts of present-day France and Germany from the 5th to the 8th ...
www.crystalinks.com/merovingian.html

Quite a distance (in both time and space) from Meroe...

[TXnMA]

You posted a neat article a few weeks ago with some remarkable overhead photos of city patterns in the desert — taken from a kite or balloon. Do you recall what that was — and who did it? Could it be these same folks with their kite photos?

[TXnMA]

If you go to the website and click on the upper photo, you get a slightly larger version in a new window. The only thing I construe as likely ruins are just above and slightly to the right of center.

Those markings look similar (in albedo, etc.) to the markings just above and right of center in the lower photo (which is not available in a larger version).

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

No, Meroe was the captial of the country Kush, in what is now Sudan, during the time of the Pharohs. Egypt and Kush traded a lot.

Towards the end of the Pharohic period, the end of the New Kingdom, this civilization even took over at least part of Egypt for about 100 years.

[BlueDragon]

Beat me to it. Google leads to Wiki, top result each spelling.

From the first line of the Wiki "Meroe" spelling, we find
Meroë (Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi) (مرواه - Arabic: Meruwah). In the Anglicized spellings above, can be seen notable differences between that and the Meroving.

From another page we see a (supposed) linage of Merovingian kings;

with no mention in any of the literature or lore about them describing them as being dark skinned Kushites, although this linage does start some years after the end of the Meroe rule...

Meroe

The reason there is still so much uncertainty surrounding the Meroians, is mostly due to the fact that their language and writing are indecipherable. No one knows for sure what their language sounded like or what their Egyptian resembling hieroglyphic writing stands for. The pictures closely resemble those of ancient Egypt, but we have thus far been unable to decode the Meroitic scripts.

It certainly doesn't appear to be unreasonable that if these later Frankish Kings were descended from African Kings only a hundred or few hundred years before their bloodline came into dominance in parts of France & Germany --- there would be some mention or clue.

As it is, it looks to be just another word similarity.

But thank you, blam, for yet another interesting archaeological/historical article brought to FR. Would have most likely missed it without your effort (as usual).

[edcoil]

Is it the tiny thing in the lower left corner?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Another victim of the Muslim Jingaweed militia.

[Wuli]

they should not have reported this

we can expect the islamic fundamentalists that back the current government of sudan to seek the destruction of this ancient church, lest it pollute the history of sudan

[Judith Anne]

Thank you. I appreciate your reply.

[Judith Anne]

Thank you, I appreciate the information.

[SunkenCiv]

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[eleni121]

Another victim of the Muslim Jingaweed militia.

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That is correct.

The muslim invaders like locusts have taken over...but soon in January 2011 the referendum will at least free the South from the zombies in the north