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The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, [2] [3] or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, [4] was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.
Pre-existing Nubian deities that were associated with Egyptian deities took on the names of their Egyptian counterparts but kept their Nubian characteristics, creating new iconography. [4] The tomb of Alara (ca. early to mid- 8th century BC ) and other burials of the first Napatan Dynasty revealed a traditional Nubian royal burial with Egyptian ...
Some sources credit Kashta as the founder of the 25th dynasty since he was the first Kushite king known to have expanded his kingdom's influence into Upper Egypt. [13] Under Kashta's reign, the native Kushite population of his kingdom, situated between the third and fourth Cataracts of the Nile , became rapidly 'Egyptianized' and adopted ...
[44] [45] It was during the 25th dynasty that the Nile valley saw the first widespread construction of pyramids (many in modern Sudan) since the Middle Kingdom. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] The Kushites developed their own script, the Meroitic alphabet , which was influenced by Egyptian writing systems c. 700–600 BC , although it appears to have been ...
Tabekenamun (Tabakenamun) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. [2] Tabekenamun was a daughter of King Piye and may have been a queen consort to her brother Taharqa. She is known from Cairo Statue 49157 from Karnak. [3] Others have suggested Tabekenamun was the wife of Shabaka. She was a King's Daughter, King's Sister ...
11th Dynasty model of Nubian archers in the Egyptian army, from a tomb in Asyut (c. 2130–1991 BC). Bowmen were the most important components in Kushite military. [ 49 ] Ancient sources indicate that Kushite archers favored one-piece bows that were between six and seven feet long, with a draw strength so powerful that many of the archers used ...
Dynasty 25th Dynasty Piye (also interpreted as Pankhy or Piankhi ; [ 3 ] [ a ] d. 714 BC) was an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt , who ruled Egypt from 744–714 BC. [ 6 ]
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]