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During the Bronze Age, Nubian ancestors of the Kingdom of Kush built speoi (a speos is a temple or tomb cut into a rock face) between 3700 and 3250 BC. This greatly influenced the architecture of the New Kingdom of Egypt. [120] Tomb monuments were one of the more recognizable expressions of Kushite architecture.
Portrait of Nastasen, with Kushite crown. Nastasen was a king of Kush who ruled the Kingdom of Kush from 335 to 315/310 BCE. According to a stela from Dongola, his mother was named Queen Pelkha and his father may have been King Harsiotef. [1]
Kush reached the apex of its power c. 739 –656 BCE, when the Kushite kings also ruled as the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. The kingdom remained a powerful state in its heartland after Kushite rule in Egypt was terminated and it survived for another millennium until its collapse c. 350 CE. Egyptian culture heavily influenced Kush in terms of ...
Taharqa, also spelled Taharka or Taharqo (Ancient Egyptian: 饟嚳饟墧饟儹饟垘, romanized: t隃rwq, Akkadian: Tar-qu-ú, Hebrew: 转执旨专职讛指拽指讛, romanized: T墨rh膩q膩, 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.
Amanikhatashan as depicted in her tomb. Amanikhatashan was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, probably ruling in the middle 2nd century CE. [1] Amanikhatashan is known only from her tomb in Meroë, designated as Beg. N 18. [2] The objects found in Amanikhatashan's tomb place her as reigning at some point in the first or second centuries CE ...
Reisner thought that the earliest tomb, Tum.1, dated back to the time of Pharaoh Sheshonq I of Ancient Egypt (c. 860 BC) and predates the Kingdom of Napata by some 200 years. At the present, some scholars (Hakem, Torok) think the early cemetery stretches back to the Ramesside period and date the earliest burials to the end of the Twentieth ...
The Pyramids of Meroë are a large number of Nubian pyramids, encompassing three cemeteries near the ancient city of Meroë.The Meroë pyramids date to the later stage of the Kingdom of Kush (3rd century BCE–4th century CE) and were burial places for Kushite monarchs, other members of the royal family, and important officials and dignitaries.
Amanipilade was identified as a female ruler through the name's connection to Beg N. 25. The pyramid's mortuary chapel includes a relief depicting the monarch buried, which is conventionally interpreted as depicting a ruling queen, [1] relatively common in the late Kingdom of Kush. [5]