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The Kingdom of Kush (/ k ʊ ʃ, k ʌ ʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
Jebel Barkal was the capital city of the Kingdom of Kush as it returned to power in the years after 800 BCE as the Dynasty of Napata. The Kushite kings who conquered and ruled over Egypt as the 25th Dynasty , including Kashta , Piankhy (or Piye ), and Taharqa , all built, renovated, and expanded monumental structures at the site.
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Kush reached the apex of its power c. 739 –656 BCE, when the Kushite kings also ruled as the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. The kingdom remained a powerful state in its heartland after Kushite rule in Egypt was terminated and it survived for another millennium until its collapse c. 350 CE. Egyptian culture heavily influenced Kush in terms of ...
This location was an important political and religious centre of the Kingdom of Kush, ancient Napata. [1] The pyramids here are located beside the mountain of Jebel Barkal and consist of 50 pyramids that are split into 2 areas of 25 pyramids each. The earliest 25 pyramids at Jebel Barkal date from the beginning of the 3rd century while the ...
Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile, near the Fourth Cataract.Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal.. Nuri is the second of three Napatan burial sites and the construction of pyramids at Nuri began when there was no longer enough space at El-Kurru. [1]
Nastasen is known from three types of objects. There is a stela with a long historical inscription, a silver handle of a mirror, [2] and several shabti-figures.The mirror handle and the shabti were found in a pyramid at Nuri (Nu. 15), which was obviously his burial place.
The stela was found by the British archaeologist John Garstang in 1914 at the site of Hamadab, which is located a few kilometres south of Meroë, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. One of a pair, the excavators discovered the stelae either side of the main doorway into a small temple .