name Blemmyes with the modern Beja term bálami "desert inhabitant, nomad", derived from bal "desert". The people referred to in Greek texts as Blemmyes may...

origins of the name "Blemmyes", and the question is considered unsettled. In antiquity, the actual tribe known as the Blemmyes were said to be named...

ascribed an uncivilized nature to the Blemmyes. Both Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela associated the Blemmyes with mythical figures such as satyrs and...

dominated Lower Nubia, and that the Blemmyes could be regarded as a particular tribe of the Medjay. The Blemmyes are another Cushitic speaking tribe,...

as the Early Holocene. Based on onomastic evidence, the Medjay and the Blemmyes of northern Nubia are believed to have spoken Cushitic languages related...

beings known as the Blemmyes, who are indeed said to have no head, and have their facial features on the chest. Cannibalism Blemmyes (legendary creatures)...

Lower Nubia and some cities in Upper Egypt. Rilly (2019) states: "The Blemmyes are another Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the...

speakers of a Cushitic language improbable. The nomadic Medjay and the Blemmyes—the latter possibly a subgroup of the former—are believed by many historians...

praefectus Aegypti as their new emperor.: 23  He enjoyed successes against the Blemmyes attacking the Thebaid, but by August 262 Alexandria was devastated and...

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