Nubia in the Nile Valley
The origin of the name Nubia is unclear. Noubades was the Greek name given to the people who migrated into northern Nubia in the 4th century. Nubia was known as Kush for 2,000 years. The area south of the first Nile Falls was called Kush. The origin of the name Nubia is unclear. The name is known from ancient Egyptian texts the Bible. The Kushites developed a powerful territory. The first Nubian territory was centered at Kerma, later with a capital at Napata (800–270 BC) and Meroei. Many Nubians lived along the Nile River stretching north through the desert. Importantly the Nubians established trading posts with their northern neighbors the Egyptians in exchange for grain mining carnelian and gold dates lentils lentils and other mineral resources vegetable oil wine beer gold hides hardwoods.
The Nubians from the African lands moved to the Sahara Desert starting with the Nile River around 5000 BC bringing with them the art of pottery. New people began to move from the south into the region making the Nubian population a mixed African ethnic group. They were originally herders and hunters of large animals but later became fishermen and farmers. From their origins in sub-Saharan Africa to Egyptian and Mediterranean civilizations the Nubians built royal monuments and pyramids in what is now Egypt and Sudan. From the beginning the kings of Nubia with their special skills were a major military force conquering and ruling Egypt for about a century.
The beginning of the conquest of Nubia
The old discoveries Nubia was conquered by Pharaoh Thutmose I of Egypt about 170 years ago. Pharaoh Tutankhamun old skeletons in the past to the bones discovered today both ordinary people and things in the Nubian pyramids discovered today. At that time the pyramids were structures that were not related to the upper class in the past. From archaeological excavations most of the information about ancient Nubia
the pyramid monuments artwork and writings of the Nubians also has important evidence of ancient Egypt telling stories. Rock paintings found The complex relationship between the two lands The Egyptian text was developed by the Nubians. Writing letters around 200 BC during the Meroitic period. The discovery of archaeologists about Meroitic Nubia can be found in the art, literature of the Greeks which the Greek and Roman empires reached the borders of Nubia after 330 BC with the history left by the Nubian kings. Pharaohs of the 25th dynasty of Egypt around 750 BC.
