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Amanishakheto

fl. late 1st century BCE · 1st century BCE

Amanishakheto was a ruling queen, or kandake, of the Kingdom of Kush at Meroë in the late 1st century BCE. She is known from inscriptions and building work at several sites, and from her pyramid at Meroë, where in 1834 the Italian adventurer Giuseppe Ferlini found a treasure of gold jewellery now in the museums of Berlin and Munich.

Amanishakheto
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Amanishakheto. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/amanishakheto
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