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WHY IS NUBIA UNKNOWN?

Nubian civalization lasted 4400 years so why is it
unkown? There are several reasons some of wich
include. The most significant reason is simple
predijice. Another reason is it's isolation. Also we
have yet to decipher Nubia's writing. Finnally many of
the records we have of Nubia were written by it's
enemys.
It is almost always the conquerers who write the
history. As a result many of the ancient records place
Nubia in an unfair light, and are not very trustworthy
sources.
We know Nubian writing, developed in Mero sometime
around 170 BCE, is alphabetic. We even know the sound
values for each of the letters. However scholars are
still unable to decipher the language.
Nubia is very isolated geographicly. It is
surounded by deadly desert. Cateracts block travle
along the Nile river. Its only neighboring
civalization is Egyt. Because of this isolation little
was known of Nubia in anceint times, except fantastic
legends of gold and wealth.
By far the greatest reason for are lack of
knowledge of Nubian civalization is simple pedjudice. 
As far back a Greek times the "black" race has been
seen as infieror, and thus unworthy of the attention of
historians. Indeed there is little mention of Nubia in
the written records of western civalization from the
time it was Cristianized in the 6th century till the
19th. Because of this predjidce scholars regarded
Nubian civalization as inferior, derived almost
completly from the ("white") Egyptian culture. This
lead to claims as far fetched as ("white") Libian
decended kings ruling Nubia. The only reason Nubia
began to get some atention by scholars was when dams
threatened to flood unexcavated sites forever. Still
as late as 1960 only one Americain scholar was working
in Nubian study. Thankfully this trend is changing,
and we are begining to get a more accurate, less
predjudiced