Jan/Feb 2025 - NGH Single Copy

HISTORY JANUARY/FEBRUARY 
NUBIAN PHAROAHS
Egypt had long dominated neighboring Nubia until suddenly, in the eighth century B.C., the tables were turned. Nubian kings swept into society, ruled as the 25th dynasty, and formed a rich, Egyptian-influenced society. Other features in this issue include:
• Our Neanderthal Cousins – For hundreds of thousands of years they adapted to climates, and for a few millennia they coexisted, and bred, with modern humans. Did we drive Neanderthals to extinction, or did they assimilate into our communities?
• Aphrodite’s Rise to Glory – To historians, she evolved from fertility deities east of Greece, but to the Greeks, the goddess of love was born out of the waves. Sometimes clothed, and later depicted naked, she seduced the Romans, who renamed her Venus.
• Triumphal Arches of Rome – Victorious Roman general once parade through wooden arches, structures and emperors later immortalized in stone. Adorned with inscriptions and art, they stand for historians as detailed chronicles of war and conquest.
• The First Supercomputers – In 1943 the U.S. military drove development of the room-size ENIAC. The world was awed by the supercomputer, but the race was on to reduce its size and expand its functions into civilian life, paving the way for the personal computers.