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Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king

Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king

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Comments (42)

  • romanhn
    I did not expect the recovered order that confirmed the existence of a (semi-)legendary Nubian king to basically be "Dear X, when you get here, please take some sheep from Y in exchange for some cotton cloths. Kthxbye! -King Qashqash".
  • xrd
    I just love the sounds in sentence "...Arabization of Dongola in the Funj period."Dongola in the Funj period sounds like the place to be!
  • wglb
    Paper at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2... from Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
  • Oras
    The writing style (in Arabic) feels like a message in a chat. It's a mix between dialect and official Arabic.
  • syncsys87
    Great find. This is the kind of content that makes HN worthwhile.
  • coin
    Please don’t edit the title
  • nwhnwh
    Dots?
  • nephihaha
    That was interesting, notwithstanding the editorialising comments by Tomasz Barański.