3 Amazing Forgotten Ancient Empires

A lost kingdom almost as elusive as Atlantis but mentioned in ancient Egyptian inscriptions ... A land that was ruled by Egypt and eventually ruled Egypt itself ... and a great African empire home to myths, legends and a relic some claim is the Ark of the Covenant.

Lovers of ancient history, it's worth looking into the Kingdom of Yam, the Kingdom of Kush and the Aksumite Empire. Thanks for watching! I hope this introduction to some often-overlooked ancient cultures inspires your own research and reading.

TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Intro 0:19 - The Kingdom of Yam 2:17 - Kush 4:00 - Aksum 5:20 - Aksum myths, legends, Ark of the Covenant

Sources & Reading: YAM Cooper, Julien. “Reconsidering the Location of Yam.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 48 (2012): 1–21. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24555437.

Translation of inscriptions from the tomb of Harkhuf http://www.touregypt.net/inscriptionsofharkhuf.htm

KUSH Burstein, Stanley M. “Axum and the Fall of Meroe.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 18 (1981): 47–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/40000342.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/A0XNvklcqbwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=kush%23. (p. 22-24)

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/445-2111/features/10053-egypt-philae-temples

(cool photo of Meroitic script inscription) https://www.archaeology.org/news/6539-180411-sudan-meroitic-texts

AKSUM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4376627.stm

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-09-wr-237-story.html

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/kingdom-aksum

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/

https://www.christianpost.com/news/is-the-ark-of-the-covenant-inside-a-church-in-ethiopia-historians-claim-of-having-seen-the-ark-disputed.html

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