Facial reconstruction of a man recovered from a post-Meroitic grave (350 A.D.) in El Kassinger, and photos and a digital illustration of the tattoos of the “Chi-Rho” and Greek letters alpha and omega found on a body at Ghazal…
Scientists in Sudan have discovered a tattoo with references to Christ on a 1,300-year-old body excavated in a cemetery near a medieval monastery…
It is only the second time that a tattoo has been found from medieval Nubia, the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) at the University of Warsaw, whose members are conducting excavation and research at the site, known as Ghazali, said in a statement…
Nubia is a region that encompasses parts of modern-day Egypt and Sudan…
Found on the right foot of an individual, who is likely a man, the tattoo has what scholars call the "Chi-Rho" symbol, along with the Greek letters alpha and omega, the statement said…
The Chi-Rho symbol combines the Greek letters "chi" and "rho" to form an abbreviation for Christ, the statement said, noting that this abbreviation debuted around A.D. 324, when Constantine became emperor of the Roman Empire…
The letters alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and represent the Christian belief that God is the beginning and end of everything, the statement said…
It is well known and documented that groups of Israelitish peoples have, from time to time, journeyed into the Upper Nile country…
After the defeat of the Egypto-Assyrian forces at Carchemish in Syria in 600 B.C. numerous deportees followed the fleeing Egypto-Assyrian troops to the Nile valley, before continuing their migration into sub-Saharan Africa…
The Egypto-Assyrian defeat by the Babylonians (Chaldeans) circa 600 B.C. caused massive migrations of ancient Assyrians, Arameans, Phoenicians (Canaanites), Philistines, Israelites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Elamites…
These migrants first settled in various regions of upper Egypt (near the border with Meroe) causing the original Kemetic stock to begin migrating west (establishing Nok) and south to modern day South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda etc, establishing Nilotic peoples…
Subsequently the Medo-Persians and Greeks would station more Israelites, Phoenicians (Canaanites), Moabites, Ammonites, and Arameans in Upper Egypt as laborers and at military garrisons…
As the Greco-Roman era began to take place and culminating with the Fall of Jerusalem 70 AD; many of these groups migrated in mass to Meroe…
MEROE (Kush / Nubia) was an Ancient Kingdom in modern day Northern Sudan that existed as a state from the 2000's B.C. to 350 A.D. when it was sacked by the Aksumite Kingdom in modern day Ethiopia…
From 350 A.D. to about 500 A.D. it existed as a weaker disintegrated state…
Around 500 A.D. due to the pressure exerted on Nubia by the Axumite kingdom of Ethiopia, Nubia was shattered, and the Yoruba, Igbo, Akan, Mande and Temne people moved west and established small trading kingdoms…
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