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  2. Medjay - Wikipedia

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    Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a nisba of mḏꜣ [1]) was a demonym used in various ways throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer initially to a nomadic group from Nubia and later as a generic term for desert-ranger police. [2] They were sometimes confused with the Pan-Grave culture.

  3. Haggag Oddoul - Wikipedia

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    He did not begin writing until the age of forty. His works have received several Egyptian literary awards, and he obtained government grants for the years 1996-1998 and 2002–2003, to complete his novels. Most of his work attempts to preserve various aspects of the gradually disappearing Nubian culture and language.

  4. Nubians - Wikipedia

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    This was the case for both Egyptians and Nubians. Egyptian and Nubian deities alike were worshipped in Nubia for 2,500 years, even while Nubia was under the control of the New Kingdom of Egypt. [65] Nubian kings and queens were buried near Gebel Barkal, in pyramids as the Egyptian pharaohs were.

  5. Kashta - Wikipedia

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    While Kashta ruled Nubia from Napata, which is 400 km north of Khartoum, the modern capital of Sudan, he also exercised a strong degree of control over Upper Egypt by managing to install his daughter, Amenirdis I, as the presumptive God's Wife of Amun in Thebes in line to succeed the serving Divine Adoratrice of Amun, Shepenupet I, Osorkon III's daughter.

  6. Military of ancient Nubia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Slavery in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The baqt did not allow for direct slave raids to Nubia, however Egypt did purchase Nubian slaves captured by the Buja tribes living in the Eastern Desert of Nubia, as well as Buja slaves captured by Nubians; Egypt also conducted slave raids to Nubia or Buja whenever they broke the conditions of the treaty.

  8. Amenhotep called Huy - Wikipedia

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    Amenhotep Huy was buried in TT40 located in Qurnet Murai, Thebes, Egypt. The tomb is situated behind Amenhotep III's funerary temple and contains illustrations of Huy carrying out his responsibilities as well as everyday activities. [8] There is one reference to a Temple named "Satisfying the Gods" in Nubia. Huy is shown being greeted there by ...

  9. A-Group culture - Wikipedia

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    Frank Yurco stated that depictions of pharonic iconography such as the royal crowns, Horus falcons and victory scenes were concentrated in the Upper Egyptian Naqada culture and A-Group Nubia. He further elaborated that: "Egyptian writing arose in Naqadan Upper Egypt and A-Group Nubia, and not in the Delta cultures, where the direct Western ...