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5. Morkot, Robert. (2000). <i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0948695242/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0948695242&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a005059adeed3f030e20f38cffd4cba2 The Black Pharaohs: Egypt’s Nubian Rulers].</i> London: The Rubicon Press.

As the title of this book suggests, a large portion of this study is dedicated to the period of Nubian rule in Egypt – the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty. Mokot goes beyond Nubian rule in Egypt, though, by providing an in-depth study of Nubian culture in Sudan before the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, as well as after the Nubian rulers were expelled from Egypt in 664 BC. The author combines both archaeological and textual evidence to present a work that is accessible to academics and lay people alike.

This book covers Ptolemaic era Egypt through the Roman Period, ending with the advent of the Islamic conquest in AD 642. Like Chauveau’s book, Bowman examines Greek and Roman Egypt with a more thematic approach, but in a much more dense and academic manner. Bowman places a greater emphasis on the social history of the period, particularly how the Greek and native Egyptian communities interacted, than he does on imperial politics and chronology.

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