Ancient Nubian

The history of Nubia (Kush) is bound up in the history of its northern neighbor Egypt; a line of Nubian kings even sat on the Egyptian throne.

Dates

c. 2500 B.C.E.– 360 C.E.

Places

Africa > North Africa > Egypt, Sudan

Basics Works of Art

Ancient Nubian

The history of Nubia (Kush) is bound up in the history of its northern neighbor Egypt; a line of Nubian kings even sat on the Egyptian throne.

Dates

c. 2500 B.C.E.– 360 C.E.

Places

Africa > North Africa > Egypt, Sudan

Basics Works of Art

Basics to get you started

Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, an introduction

King Piye and the Kushite control of Egypt

Meroitic period of the Kingdom of Kush

The Kingdom of Kush in ancient Nubia, an introduction

Late Period and the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, an introduction

Works of Art

A 5th-century Nubian chest: rethinking artistic centers in late antiquity

4th–6th century C.E.

Pylon of the Nubian Lion Temple at Naga

c. 1–20 C.E.

Pyramids of Sudan

900 B.C.E.–300 C.E.

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