These machines are worked by asses or buffaloes in Egypt and by camels in Nubia. The shadàf is a roughly made pair of gigantic scales in which the trays are replaced by a bucket at one end and a stone on the other, the stone being a little more than the weight of the bucket when...
the foundation stone for Egyptology was laid. The expedition by the German Egyptologist Richard Lepsius in 1842–46 to Egypt andNubiayielded further knowledge about Ancient Egypt. During the first half of the nineteenth century, however,field workin Egypt was still primarily the search for curiositie...
Peripheral Concerns examines the influence of one "core" region of the ancient Near Eastern world—Egypt—on urban development in the southern Levant in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages, with emphasis on the relative stability and sustainability of this development in each era. The study utilizes...
Systematic campaigns of plunder were undertaken against Cush (Nubia) in the south, the Libyans in the northwest, and the Bedouin on the Sinai Peninsula, where copper mines were located. Old Kingdom (c. 2800–2250 B.C.). The Old Kingdom began with the ascension of the first king of ...
The New Kingdom c. 1550–1070 BCE began with the Eighteenth Dynasty, marking the rise of Egypt as an international power that expanded during its greatest extension to an empire as far south as Tombos in Nubia, and included parts of the Levant in the east. This period is noted for som...
Snefru(i), the first king, seems to have waged extensive wars in Nubia and Palestine. From dynasty 5 remainders exist of several gigantic monuments in the form of huge obelisks (not monolithic!) on platforms, dedicated to the sun-god Re' (see Pillars). In dynasty King Pepy (pronounced ...
its influence into southern Palestine and probably Sinai and conducted a campaign as far as the Second Cataract. The First Cataract area, with its center onElephantine, an island in the Nile opposite the present-day town of Aswān, was permanently incorporated into Egypt, but LowerNubiawas not....
…side of the continent, ancient Egypt’s links with the Sudan region were generally strong, notably with Nubia. After the Nubian empire had been overrun by Muslims, it was replaced by kingdoms such as those of Dongola, Darfur, and Funj. Later there was invasion from Egypt and, in 1899...
Kings from Libya and then from Nubia took over parts of Egypt. Foreign ruled Egypt came into conflict with the new power in the Ancient world, Assyria. The Assyrians destroyed Memphis and placed puppet rulers in parts of Egypt. Late Period ...
The pharaohs that ruled over this kingdom were made wealthy by military successes that expanded their influence south into Nubia, west along the Mediterranean, and east into modern-day Syria. This wealth and the huge workforce at their disposal made it possible for the New Kingdom pharaohs to ...