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Ta-Seti (uppermost) at the "White Chapel" in Karnak Map of all nomoi in Upper EgyptTa-Seti (Land of the bow, also Ta Khentit, the Frontier or Borderland) was the first nome (administrative division) of Upper Egypt, one of 42 nomoi in Ancient Egypt.
Nubia was the seat of several civilizations of ancient Africa, including the Kerma culture, the Kingdom of Kush, Nobatia, Makuria and Alodia. Nubia had a strong relationship with archery throughout antiquity. Egyptians referred to Nubia as Ta-Seti; meaning “land of the bow”. Evidence of archery in Ancient Nubia traces back to Neolithic rock ...
Ta-Seti was a powerful sacral kingdom in the Nile Valley at the 1st and 2nd cataracts that exerted an influence over nearby chiefdoms based on pictorial representation ruling over Upper Egypt. Ta-Seti traded as far as Syro-Palestine, as well as with Egypt. Ta-Seti exported gold, copper, ostrich feathers, ebony and ivory to the Old Kingdom. By ...
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
Kushite religion is the traditional belief system and pantheon of deities associated with the Ancient Kushites, who founded the Kingdom of Kush in the land of Nubia (also known as Ta-Seti) in present-day Sudan. [1] [2] The recorded origins and foundations of early kushite practices go back to the kerma culture. By the Middle Kingdom, Nubians ...
The name Thutmose II is read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis II, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek, and derives from Ancient Egyptian: /ḏḥwty.ms/ Djehutymes, meaning "Thoth is born". Thutmose II was the son of Thutmose I and his minor wife, Mutnofret , who was probably a daughter of Ahmose I . [ 2 ]
Karnak obelisk of Seti II 0.95 m: Seti II: 1203–1197 BC Karnak (in situ) Karnak: Luxor: Egypt [22] Luxor obelisk 0.95 m (original est. 3 m) Ramesses III: 1186–1155 BC Karnak: Luxor Museum (1923) Luxor: Egypt [23] Obelisks of Nectanebo II: 0.95 m (original est. 5.5 m) Nectanebo II: 360–342 BC Hermopolis: British Museum: London: United ...
The Ta-Seti kingdom in Nubia to the south of Egypt was conquered by Egyptian rulers around 3100 BC, but by 2500 BC the Nubians had created a new kingdom further south, known as the Kingdom of Kush, centred on the upper Nile with a capital at Kerma. [78] In the Egyptian New Kingdom period, Kush once more was conquered by Egypt.