The name Candace was once a title of Nubian queens.

260 BC · 320 · apart: 580 years

Kandake meant a queen or queen mother of Kush; Greeks and Romans mistook it for a name, and through the Acts of the Apostles it became one.

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• Meroë becomes the heart of Kushc. 270 BC · Meroë. Around 270 BC the royal burials of Kush moved from Napata to Meroë on the Nile. The Meroitic kingdom, with its own script, pyramids and large-scale iron smelting, flourished until the 4th century AD.

3rd century BC · 4th century

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