U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites Ramadan Children Inventors The Doctor's In ... 2006 TFK Almanac Reference Desk Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Nubia [n OO u Pronunciation Key Nubia , ancient state of NE Africa. At the height of its political power Nubia extended, from north to south, from the First Cataract of the Nile (near Aswan, Egypt) to Khartoum, in Sudan. It early came under the influence of the pharaohs, and in the 20th cent. B.C. Seti I completed the occupation of the area. Many centuries later Egypt itself was ruled (8th and 7th cent. B.C. ) by conquering Nubians of the Cush (Kush) kingdom. Later, after the Assyrians expelled (c.667 B.C. ) Tirhakah from Egypt, the Cushite capital was moved (c.530) from Napata to A.D. Mahdi See A. J. Arkell, A History of the Sudan to A.D. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, More on Nubia from Fact Monster: - Napata - Napata , ancient city of Nubia, just below the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. From about the 8th ... Plundered Art: Recovering the Head of Ramses II - Egyptian police recover teh magnificent statue's head from a farmhouse by David Johnson RELATED ...
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