title: The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires
author: D. A. Welsby
description: ...a reliable, up-to-date guide....Welsby's book presents the archaeological evidence extensively in illustrations and plates. Welsby's early and concluding chapters (1-3, 9) trace the rise, greatness, and "fall" of the Kushite kingdom in great detail and with frequent reference to points of scholarly disagreement. The book's middle chapters (5-8) treat a variety of topics: "Religion and Funerary Ritual", "Architecture", "Urban and Rural Settlement", "The Economy", and "The Arts and the Art of Writing". They rely heavily on architectural remains and plans and on artefacts excavated in temples, palaces, towns, and cemeteries.Kushite pyramids and tombs (and their grave goods), inscribed stelae, statues, reliefs, skeletons, and pots [and] such objects of daily life as clothing, musical instruments, toys, and cosmetics.
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  # R. Scott Bakker
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Warrior-Prophet
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  (Book Two of The Prince of Nothing)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # What Has Come Before
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The First Apocalypse destroyed the great Norsirai nations of the North. Only
  the South, the Ketyai nations of the Three Seas, survived the onslaught of the
  No-God, Mog-Pharau, and his Consult of generals and magi. The years passed,
  and the Men of the Three Seas forgot, as Men inevitably do, the horrors
  endured by their fathers.
  
  
  
  
  
  Empires rose and empires fell: Kyraneas, Shir, Cenei. The Latter Prophet, Inri
  Sejenus, reinterpreted the Tusk, the holiest of artefacts, and within a few
  centuries the faith of Inrithism, organized and administered by the Thousand
  Temples and its spiritual leader, the Shriah, came to dominate the entire
  Three Seas. The 