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Lower Nubia shown as a list of monuments at risk in the 1960 UNESCO Courier. Lower Nubia (also called Wawat) [1] [2] is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern Lake Nasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
The A-Group was the first powerful society in Nubia, located in modern southern Egypt and northern Sudan that flourished between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile in Lower Nubia. It lasted from the 4th millennium BC, reached its climax at c. 3100 BC , and fell 200 years later c. 2900 BC .
Pottery of the C-Group people, 2300-1600 BCE, Faras. Most of what is known about the C-Group peoples comes from Lower Nubia and the Dongola Reach. [9] The northern border of the C-Group was around el-Kubanieh near Aswan. The southern border is still uncertain, but C-Group sites have been found as far south as Eritrea. [10]
Upper Nubia was where the ancient Kingdom of Napata (the Kush) was located. Lower Nubia has been called "the corridor to Africa", where there was contact and cultural exchange between Nubians, Egyptians, Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, and Arabs. Lower Nubia was also where the Kingdom of Meroe flourished. [43]
Lower Nubia was controlled by Egypt from 2000 to 1700 BC and Upper Nubia from 1700 to 1525 BC. From 2200 to 1700 BC, the Pan Grave culture appeared in Lower Nubia. [33]: 20 Some of the people were likely the Medjay (mḏꜣ, [64]) arriving from the desert east of the Nile river. One feature of Pan Grave culture was shallow grave burial.
In the archaeological record, a culture known as the Pan-Grave culture [13] is generally considered by experts to represent the Medjay. [14] [15] This culture is named for its distinctive circular graves, found throughout Lower Nubia and Upper Egypt, which date to the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period (1800-1550 BC).
Nubian people (5 C, 14 P) S. ... Pages in category "Nubia" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Lower Nubia; M. Meinarti; N. Nubian Desert;
The Pan-Grave culture is a Middle Nubian archaeological culture from Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and possibly the Eastern Desert from c. 1850 BCE – 1600 BCE. They were once confused with the Medjay of the Egyptian textual tradition.