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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roman-coin-depicting-zodiac-symbol-discovered-off-israels-coast-180980495/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=20220729-daily-responsive&spMailingID=47171663&spUserID=ODg3NDcwNDgyMTU1S0&spJobID=2283120186&spReportId=MjI4MzEyMDE4NgS2

I get emails from Smithsonian too!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sudan-land-kush-meroe-ancient-civilization-overlooked-180975498/

Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a necropolis for the kings and queens of Kush for close to 600 years.

Ruins at the Temple of Soleb, which was dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Amun-RA. The temple's patron pharaohs included Tutankhamen, who had his name inscribed on a red granite lion.

Inside the tomb of King Tantamani, circa 650 B.C, in El-Kurru, the site of royal burials during Egypt’s 25th Dynasty, when Kush conquered Egypt and initiated the reign of the “Black Pharaohs.”

Pyramid tombs at Jebel Barkal from the Meroitic era, dating between c.270 BC and AD 350. The site, near the ancient city of Napata, held special significance for Kush and Egypt, which believed that it was the source of Creation and the birthplace of the sun god Amun-Ra.