Why This Site Exists

Kush History is written and maintained by Sunni.

I have no university training in history or archaeology. I am an independent researcher who got interested in ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush and could not find a site that took the subject seriously enough.

The Gap I Kept Running Into

Search for almost anything about ancient Egypt and dozens of well-built sites turn up, some hobbyist, some backed by universities and museums. Search for the Kingdom of Kush, a civilization that ruled the same river for longer than Egypt's most famous dynasties, and the results thin out fast. Most of what exists treats Kush as a paragraph inside a general Africa-history page, a footnote to Egypt's story rather than its own.

Kush had its own kings and queens, its own pyramids, its own writing system, and, for about a hundred years, ruled Egypt itself. It deserved a site built around it specifically. This is my attempt at one.

What I Bring to This, and What I Don't

My degree is in computer science, not history. That background helped me build the site itself properly, but it gave me no shortcut on the history. What I bring to that side is time, real interest, and a willingness to read the actual sources instead of repeating whatever the first search result says.

Every page here gets built the same way: find the real source, whether that's an archaeological report, a museum collection record, or a historian's published work, and say plainly when the evidence runs out instead of filling the gap with a guess. Read more about that approach on theSources & Citations page.

Corrections Are Welcome

I'm one person building this alone, without a research budget or a team of fact-checkers behind me. I'll get things wrong sometimes. If you find an error, a misread source, or a claim that needs a second look, I want to hear about it and fix it.

This site is a work in progress, built one carefully sourced page at a time.