A one-eyed queen of Kush fought Rome and won a good peace from Augustus.

25 BC · 21 BC · apart: 4 years

Strabo says Amanirenas was blind in one eye; her troops took Syene and Elephantine, and after talks Augustus imposed no tribute on Kush.

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• Augustus's head under the steps at Meroë24 BC · Meroë. The army of Queen Amanirenas of Kush raided Roman Egypt and smashed statues of Augustus. One bronze head was taken to Meroë and buried under the steps of a temple, apparently to be walked over. It was dug up in 1910 and is now in the British Museum.

1st century BC

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