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Sudan. Egypt. The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 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 ...
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25 ), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, [ 2 ][ 3 ] or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, [ 4 ] was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.
Napata was the southernmost permanent settlement in the New Kingdom of Egypt (16th–11th centuries BC) and home to Jebel Barkal, the main Kushite cult centre of Amun. It was the sometime capital of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and, after its fall in 663 BC, of the Kingdom of Kush. In 593 BC, it was sacked by the Egyptians and the Kushite ...
The monarchs of Kush were the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush (8th century BCE – 4th century CE), a major civilization in ancient Nubia (roughly corresponding to modern-day Sudan). Kushite power was centralised and unified over the course of the centuries following the collapse of the New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1069 BCE , leading to the ...
Kushite religion. Kushite religion is the traditional belief system and pantheon of deities associated with the Ancient Nubians, who founded the Kingdom of Kush in the land of Nubia (also known as Ta-Seti) in present-day Sudan. [ 1][ 2] During the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods, increased contact between Egypt and Nubia through military ...
Dates. c. 2500–980 BCE. The Land of Punt ( Egyptian: pwnt; alternate Egyptological readings Pwene ( t) [1] /puːnt/) was an ancient kingdom known from Ancient Egyptian trade records. It produced and exported gold, aromatic resins, blackwood, ebony, ivory and wild animals. [2] Recent evidence locates it in northwestern Eritrea. [3]
Ameniras, Qore and Kandake. Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena ), was queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush from the end of the 1st century BCE to beginning of the 1st century CE. [1] She is known for halting the Roman Empire expansion southwards, primarily through political and military means, [2] [3] and retaining Kushite independence.
Taharqa, also spelled Taharka or Taharqo ( Ancient Egyptian: 𓇿𓉔𓃭𓈎, romanized : tꜣhrwq, Akkadian: Tar-qu-ú, Hebrew: תִּרְהָקָה, romanized : Tirhāqā, Manetho 's Tarakos, Strabo 's Tearco ), was a pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and qore (king) of the Kingdom of Kush (present day Sudan) from 690 to 664 BC.