The Kushite kings of Dynasty 25 and their Napatan successors brought about a renaissance in art and architecture in Egypt, and created a new artistic idiom for Nubia that would survive for nearly a millennium. The Dynasty 25 Egyptian kings were anxious to show themselves in traditional forms ...
capital Napata(15), as well as the statues of Aspelta himself, and forcing him to move his capital far south to Meroe to be far away from the internal affairs of Egypt.But from the reign of the king Piye to the end of the Kushite kingdom, Kushite kings represented themselves as ...