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“The Kushites were originally a pastoralist, semi-nomadic group. They settled and built towns, but they maintained a lot of that pastoralist tradition and culture. For example, cattle were still widely acclaimed in their society, and one way we map just how much power or influence a person might have had is by the number of bucrania they are buried with (bucrania are the top of the cow’s skull with the horns still attached). There’s one person who is buried with nearly 5,000, which shows the importance of this individual…This book really digs into what we can know about Kushite culture. Much of that relies on the archeology, but what I particularly like about Stuart Tyson Smith is that he doesn’t ignore the written evidence, even though it’s Egyptian.” Read more...
