- The
Blemmyes (Ancient Gr****: Βλέμμυες or Βλέμυες, Blémues [blé.my.es], Latin: Blemmyae) were an
Eastern Desert people who
appeared in
written sources from...
- They are
variously known as
akephaloi (Gr**** ἀκέφαλοι 'headless ones') or
Blemmyes (Latin: Blemmyae; Gr****: βλέμμυες) and
described as
lacking a head, with...
- Blemmyan,
Blemmye, Old Beja or Old
Bedauye is an
extinct Afroasiatic language of the Cu****ic
branch that was
spoken by the
Blemmyes in the
Eastern Desert...
-
kingdom of Kush fell in late
antiquity due to
attack from the
Nobadians and
Blemmyes, and the
Roman frontier to the
south of the
First Cataract was
under threats...
- the Ku****e
resettled in Meroë. On the turn of the
fifth century the
Blemmyes established a short-lived
state in
Upper Egypt and
Lower Nubia, probably...
-
known Meroitic inscription is the
Meroitic Cursive inscription of the
Blemmye king, Kharamadoye, from a
column in the
Temple of
Kalabsha (REM 0094),...
- man is
depicted interacting with a monkey. The
headless men,
known as
Blemmyes, were portra**** in
medieval maps and
books as threatening. In
Islamic culture...
-
praefectus Aegypti as
their new emperor.: 23 He enjo****
successes against the
Blemmyes attacking the Thebaid, but by
August 262
Alexandria was
devastated and...
-
establishment in
around 400,
Nobadia gradually expanded by
defeating the
Blemmyes in the
north and
incorporating the
territory between the
second and third...
-
successfully defeated the
Blemmyes to the North, and an
inscription by
Silko at the
Temple of
Kalabsha claims to have
driven the
Blemmyes into the
Eastern Desert...
