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Caliphs in Cairo, Cordoba and Baghdad rend the unity of Islam, but not the prosperity. Gold from Nubia and the Caucasus is mined into dinars, the common currency from Spain to Lahore; and slaves from Asia, Europe and Africa labor in mines, cities, armies and harems from Cadiz to Samarkand. Meanwhile, Europe is still limping out of the Dark Ages...
...series, Gates visits the ancient cities of Great Zimbabwe, Mapungubwe and Kerma, the first capital of the ancient black kingdom Nubia...
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...read "The Nile's Other Kingdom," about recent archaeological finds of ancient Nubia in northern Sudan, with a schoolboy's interest [ARCHAEOLOGY, Sept. 15]. For the past 20 years, I have read anything I could find on ancient Nile Valley civilizations. The statement that "Nubia, not Egypt, may have been the first true African civilization" says it all. The suggestion that Nubia's black civilization may predate Egypt's civilization by some 3,000 years must be taken seriously by Egyptologists...
...ancient Egyptians looked to the land to the south, or Nubia, for many of their needs, including protection. The Egyptians implied that their first Pharaohs came from the land to the south, bringing an abundance of Nubian knowledge to Egypt with their rule. Now that archaeologists and Egyptologists are turning away from the racial prejudice practiced in earlier years against Africans, perhaps more specialists in the field will agree that the ancient Nubian civilization formed the basis of the first Egyptian dynasties. LEE M. ROBINSON, President African Historical Research Society St. Louis...