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9780316174312

Lost Cities of Africa

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  • ISBN13:

    9780316174312

  • ISBN10:

    0316174319

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1988-11-28
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books
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Summary

Combining archeological evidence and scholarly research, Davidson traces the exciting development of the rich kingdoms of the lost cities of Africa, fifteen hundred years before European ships first came to African shores.

Table of Contents

Preface to This Edition vii
Introduction The Rediscovery of Africa xiii
The Peopling of Ancient Africa
1(22)
The Possibility of African History
3(4)
Lines of Migration
7(5)
The Desert Barrier
12(4)
Giants and Heroes
16(7)
The Mystery of Meroe
23(28)
Lords of the Southern Frontier
25(9)
Egypt, Libya, Kush
34(2)
Meroe
36(4)
The Triumph of Kush
40(7)
An Athens in Africa?
47(4)
Kingdoms of the Old Sudan
51(53)
Early West Africa: Discoveries at Nok
53(6)
From Kush and Carthage
59(5)
The Coming of Iron
64(7)
``Business with the King of Timbuktu''
71(10)
Ghana
81(9)
Mali
90(8)
Songhay
98(6)
The Sao and Kanem
104

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