Their palaces and burial pyramids, copied from Egypt, and the famous temple of the sun, mentioned by [[Herodotus]], have been excavated. The kingdom went through stages of prosperity and stress (a Roman attack which destroyed the city of Napata in 23B.C. is recorded) before falling into terminal degeneration during its last two or so centuries. It went out of existence as an independent state after an attack by Axum (a powerful [[Ethiopia]]n kingdom) in A.D. 350.
We are fortunate to be able to translate Kushite inscriptions and know the names of their later rulers from the existence of their Meriotic script, developed from Egyptian hieroglyphichieroglyphs, and used parallel to it for some time.
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