Nubia, ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt) eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to about Khartoum (in what is now Sudan), and westward to the Libya
Upper Nubia sat between the Second and Sixth Cataracts of the Nile (modern-day central Sudan), and Lower Nubia sat between the First and Second Cataracts (modern-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan). The Nubian Region. This map shows the modern-day location of Nubia. Nubian history can ...
Conversely, the presence of these mercenaries in Egypt contributed to the growing African influence within Egyptian culture. (Click here for a map of Nilotic Sudan.) The defeat of the Hyksos was the result of a national rising of the Egyptians who, once they had expelled the Hyksos from ...
On account of the Kingdom of Kush’s proximity to Ancient Egypt—the first cataract at Elephantine usually being considered the traditional border between the two polities—and because the Twenty-fifth dynasty ruled over both states in the 8th century BCE, from the Rift Valley to the Taurus ...
Egypt a prime source of the precious metal in the Middle East. The primitive working conditions for the slaves are recorded by Diodorus Siculus who saw some of the mines at a later time. One of the oldest maps known is of a gold mine in Nubia, the Turin Papyrus Map dating to about ...
According to this ancient map there was no Egypt; just Libya, inhabited by various Berber tribes, and the Aethiopes (Ethiopians) in the far south. Note that the Berber Garamantes (click here for larger image) were located immediately west of the Nile, which is the same location given by...
This artificial impoundment on the Nile River when full, will extend from the High Dam (HD) at Aswan (Egypt) till the Dal Cataract (Sudan) between the 23°58′ and 20°27′ north latitude and 30°35′ and 33°15′ east longitude. Construction started in 1960, filling in 1964. (Map,...
on his back, similar to one of the men in the hunting/patrol scene. This would be consistent with inspection of workers scenes in Egypt, such as the already mentioned representations in the tomb of Menna, where scribes record the activities performed by farmers, while other workers are shown...