Meroe, Sudan. A bronze bust of Augustus is captured by warriors from the kingdom of Meroe, belonging to the one-eyed Queen Candace. Augustus Caesar is the emperor who rules the Roman Empire during the time of Jesus Christ’s birth. Queen Candace has the bust of Augustus brought to Meroe and buried in humiliating fashion beneath the entrance steps of a monument to victory over the Romans. It is a well-calculated insult to the arrogant aggression of the Roman Empire, which ends here, on the threshold of deepest Africa.
