Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...styled himself " Provisional President of Africa, Commander of the Order of the Nile, Distinguished Son of Ethiopia." His name was Marcus Garvey...
Archaeological activities in the Yucatan, Ethiopia, Thebes, Babylonia, two of the Chaldees, Sardis, Bethany, Carthage and the two Lodoses...
...From these sources," writes Dr. Reisner, "arose an impression that Ethiopia, especially Meroitic Ethiopia, had been governed by a long line of queens named Candace. Professor Griffith dispelled the greater part of this delusion by proving that the word "candace" is only a title meaning "queen". The excavation of the tombs has served further to make the situation plain...
...From 750 B. C., every ruler of Ethiopia was a male. About 160 B. C., the third generation after Ergamenes, the great queen who was buried in Pyramid N. VI seems to have been queen-regent for her son for perhaps ten years. About one hundred and thirty years later. Queen Amanshakhete, who reunited Ethiopia, appears to have been queen-regent under similar circumstances. Her son-in-law. Netekaman, the great builder of temples, obviously came to the throne by the hereditary position of his wife. Queen Amantere, who occupied an unusual position and received burial with the honors...
...current beliefs has made himself an authority who must be consulted by all students of ancient African history. Tea-table tete-a-tetes may gossip of the Valley of the Kings, but scholars in universities from Heidelberg to California will speak with gratitude of the work in Ethiopia...