On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:32:34 GMT, wrote:

I'd like to check that out. Got a URL for any good Nubian DAFNfotoz ??
The leaders, not the slaves imported from sub-Sahara...

http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/kingtaharqa.html

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/NUB/N..._brochure.html

The earliest of the Nubian cultures (the A-Group and C-Group)
were located in northern Nubia. Until recently it was thought that
A-Group people were semi-nomadic herdsmen. However, new
research suggests that a line of kings 1ived in Qustul in northern
Nubia as early as, or perhaps even earlier than, the first
pharaohs of Egypt. The people of these early cultures buried
their dead in stone-lined pit graves, accompanied by pottery
and cosmetic articles. At this time, Nubia was known to the
Egyptians as "Ta Sety," the "Land of the Bow," because of the
fame of Nubian archers.

By 1550 B.C. kings at Kerma were ruling Nubia. They were
buried in huge round tombs, accompanied by hundreds of
sacrificed retainers. People of the Kerma culture were
accomplished metal workers, and they also made thin-walled
pottery on a wheel. This was a time of increased contact
between Egypt and "Kush," as Nubia was then called.

Egypt dominated parts of Nubia from about 1950 to 1000 B.C.
Forts, trading posts and Egyptianstyle temples were built in
Kush, and the Nubian elite adopted the worship of Egyptian
gods and even the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system. The
gold, ebony and ivory of Nubia contributed to the material
wealth of Egypt, and many of the famed treasures of the
Egyptian kings were made of products from Nubia.

By 800 B.C., Egypt had fragmented into rival states. In 747
B.C., the city of Thebes in southern Egypt was threatened by
northerners, and the Egyptians called upon the Nubian king
for protection. The Ku****e king, Piye, marched north from
hiscapitalatNapata,rescuedThebesandreunified Egypt. For
the next 100 years, Ku****e kings ruled both Nubia and Egypt.
This era was brought to a close by the invasion of Assyrian
armies in 663 B.C., and the Nubian king fled south to his
capital at Napata.

By 200 B.C., the capital had shifted yet farther south to
Meroe, where the kings continued to be buried in pyramid
tombs and to build temples to Nubian and Egyptian gods in
a hybrid EgyptianRoman-African style. Roman historians
record the skirmishes and treaties which marked the relation
ship of Roman Egypt and Nubia.


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Dorothy

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