Old Kingdom Egypt and ancient Nubian civilization

Old Kingdom Egypt and ancient Nubian civilization

Ancient Kingdom Egypt

Ancient Kingdom Egypt from 2950 to 2730 BC or around 3000 BC. Ancient Kingdom Egypt is considered the beginning of the Old Kingdom era. King Menes (Menes) or Narmer 1st Dynasty was the first pharaoh to rule all of Egypt. Ancient Egyptians believed that Pharaoh Menes was the embodiment of the sun god who came down to rule humans and Egyptians He was the first pharaoh to rule all of Egypt. It was the beginning of the early dynastic period which was the time when power was centered in the city of Tainis When the 1st Dynasty ruled Egypt it ruled Egypt as one immediately after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Pharaoh Narmer. During the 8th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Nubian civilization

Nubian civilization

Nubian civilization is divided into two regions, the southern part extending north to the southern tip of the Nile Falls. It is believed that the Persians invaded Nubia. The Persians also attempted to invade the ancient northeastern region extending approximately from the Nile Valley east to the coast of the Red Sea. In the 3rd century the Belmyes of the Eastern Desert or Arabian Desert destroyed the Meroitic culture of Lower Nubia. Nubia's independence began to disappear cut off from Egypt. Egyptian Nubian culture grew into an African style. No remains of Lower Nubia have been discovered

Most of Nubia came under Egyptian rule during the New Kingdom period 1550–1070 BC. After the fall of Egypt amid the collapse of the Late Bronze Age the Kushites established a new kingdom in what is now Karima Sudan. Although the Kushite kingdom was distinguished by Egyptian art and developed many cultural connections such as culture travel language the devotion to the god Amun was different.

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Warrior Queen of Nubia Amanishakheto

Amanishakheto of Kush reigned in the early 1st century Her name is written as Amanishakheto in hieroglyphics. Title Warrior Queen of Nubia with her daughters the only African queens mentioned in the Bible and was able to defeat the Roman army sent by the first emperor of the Roman Empire  Augustus Several monuments mention Amanishakheto have been found in the Temple of Amun of Kava on tablets from Meroei in inscriptions found in the Wadbanaka on tablets found at Kasr Ibrim and on another tablet from the ruined ancient city of Meroei Naga

Pharaoh Piye of Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush

Pharaoh Piye also known as Piankei was a king of the Kushite kingdom, beginning with Pharaoh Piye of Nubia of the 25th dynasty of Egypt The Third Intermediate Period of Egypt began with the construction of the capitals of Napata and Thebes. Jebel Barkal, the Holy Mountain was the first group of ancient Egyptian pharaohs to rule the early unified Egypt They worshipped and worshipped the god Amun and restored the temple of Amun under Thutmose III. Piye commissioned stone carvers from Egypt to restore the temple of Amun.

New Kingdom Period

Ancient Egypt ca. 1479–1425 BC Beginning of the early New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt during the time of the Pharaoh of Thebes of Egypt. The territory under the New Kingdom ca 1570–1352 BC 17th to the time of Akhenaten 18th dynasty of famous Egyptian kings including Amos Hatshepsut Thutmose III Amenhotep III Akhenaten and Tutankhamen of the early New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

During the dynasty of King Amos, the first invasion of Nubia within the region and the important people of the Egyptian Empire under Thutmose I extended the control of Egypt to the Nile Falls and gold was the main resource used by the Egyptians. Cush produced a large amount of valuable metals and from the invasion by the Egyptians the Nubians began to be an Egyptian culture. By the middle of the 18th dynasty Akhenaten's Nubian culture had disappeared. Amenhotep I c. 1514–1493 BC conquered Karma destroying the Kushite kingdom and allowing the Nubians to be conquered and the Kushite viceroy became a joint official of the Egyptian Empire

Qustul tombs in ancient Nubian civilization

In the Qustul tombs part of the civilization located on the east bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia opposite the town of Ballana near the border of Sudan in the 1960s the symbols of the king were used similar to those of ancient Egypt called Gerzeh culture Gerzeh is like the ancient Nubian civilization in the past.

The Qustul tombs contain archaeological evidence patterned bowls, ceramics from the first powerful society in Nubia located in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Flourishing between the Nile Falls is called the first powerful Nubian culture. There was Lower Nubia at least 5,800 years before the modern Egyptian kingdom and the ancient Nubian culture that lived in Lower Nubia during the First Dynasty of Egypt.