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For the first time a detailed analysis of the cultural and political relations of Egypt and Kush render possible "a new definition" of the genuine features and development of Kushite culture during its full fifteen centuries' existence.

The development of Kushite concepts of order in the state and the cosmos forms the focus of Laszlo Torok's latest volume. Taking a wide variety of textual and iconographical evidence as his points of departure, the author sheds light on the formation of, and interaction between basic concepts such as inhabited space, sacred space, sacred landscape, historical memory and political legitimacy. The author traces this development by discussing the royal and temple texts, urban architecture, the structure of temple iconography, and the relationship between the society and the temples as places of...