{"id":927,"date":"2020-06-19T15:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=927"},"modified":"2022-02-21T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T12:12:32","slug":"pyramids-and-elephants-the-kingdom-of-meroe-dr-robert-morkot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/?page_id=927","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pyramids and Elephants: the Kingdom of Mero\u00eb&#8221; Dr Robert Morkot, 5th July 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Review2007.pdf\">Click here to download a review of this talk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mero\u00eb, its history and archaeology are still &#8216;poor relations&#8217; to Egypt and Egyptology; yet Mero\u00eb&#8217;s culture is striking and distinctive. Always reliant on trade with Egypt and the Mediterranean world, Mero\u00eb&#8217;s history is closely linked to Persian, Ptolemaic and Roman rule. Dr Robert Morkot will survey that historical relationship and how Mero\u00eb&#8217;s contacts led to a complex culture mixing indigenous Kushite with Egyptian, Hellenistic and Roman elements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=600 src=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/EcAzxFYXQAEFWvn.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This talk was given at the July 2020 meeting of the Essex Egyptology group, which was held at 3pm BST on 5 July 2020, online via Zoom \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Review2007.pdf\">click here to download a review of this talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to download a review of this talk Mero\u00eb, its history and archaeology are still &#8216;poor relations&#8217; to Egypt and Egyptology; yet Mero\u00eb&#8217;s culture is striking and distinctive. Always reliant on trade with Egypt and the Mediterranean world, Mero\u00eb&#8217;s history is closely linked to Persian, Ptolemaic and Roman rule. Dr Robert Morkot will survey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/927\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essexegyptology.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}