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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]
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.
Kushite royal pyramids in Meroë. The system of royal succession in the Kingdom of Kush is not well understood. [4] There are no known administrative documents or histories written by the Kushites themselves; [5] because very little of the royal genealogy can be reliably reconstructed, it is impossible to determine how the system functioned in theory and when or if it was ever broken. [6]
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 ...
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 ...
Tantamani (Ancient Egyptian: tnwt-jmn, Neo-Assyrian: tanṭammanē, Ancient Greek: Τεμένθης Teménthēs), [1] also known as Tanutamun or Tanwetamani (d. 653 BC) was ruler of the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan, and the last pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
Teqorideamani (also Teqoridemni or Teqerideamani) was the King of Kush who was ruling in AD 253. His reign may be dated from 245/246 to sometime after 265/266. [ 1 ] His throne name , attested in Egyptian hieroglyphics , was Ḫpr-kꜣ-Rꜥ , meaning " Ra is one whose ka came into being".
Nawidemak was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kush, either from the 1st century BC, [2] or 1st century AD. [1] [3] Objects from the late reign of Roman emperor Augustus or even later, found in Nawidemak's tomb, support the later date.