or Kush (kʊʃ, kʌʃ) n. 1.the eldest son of Ham. Gen. 10:6. 2.an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt. 3.an ancient kingdom in North Africa, in the region of Nubia. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries...
Its roots date from around 1100B.C., when Egypt began to decline and pulled out of its southern region of Nubia(modern Sudan)。Local Nubian rulers then established their own kingdom, known as Kush, which became strong enough to invade and rule Egypt for a short while, withdrawing after ...
Under Roman rule in the north and Meroë in the south, in the first through fourth centu- ries AD (Classic and Late Meroitic period), Lower Nubia was an intermediary between Upper Nubia and Egypt (e.g., Török, 2008; Williams, 1991). During the Kingdom of Nobadia (ca. AD ...
Investigating mobility and pastoralism in Kerma-period communities upstream of the fourth cataract, Sudan. OBJECTIVES\nThe Kingdom of Kush in today's northern Sudan and southern Egypt (ancient Nubia) is often depicted as a secondary state relative to ancient Egy... LA Gregoricka,BJ Baker - 《...
The 2,300-year-old royal tomb of a Kushite king appears nearly untouched—and submerged in rising groundwater. What’s an archaeologist to do?
for the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan, where slab break-off is ongoing. We interpret our results as crustal subduction on top of a northwards-subducting Indian lithospheric slab, whose penetration depth increases along-strike while thinning and steepening. This implies that break-off is propagating lat...
Between 1907 and 1910 he excavated the site of Karanog, a former provincial capital of the Kingdom of Kush. Randall-MacIver left Penn museum in 1911 following a disagreement with new Museum Director George Byron Gordon, becoming librarian of the American Geographical Society. In 1914 he left ...
Combined with the Nile’s bend region Nubia/Kush having been called the ‘Land of the Bow’ (Ta-Seti), echoing Sirius’ epithets ‘Bow Star’, ‘Arrow Star’, etc., we can be fairly certain this is the location for the second key date. And with that, we are ready for the final ...
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The period between the mid-fourth and the mid-third millennium BC, the focus of this last chapter, is the epilogue of Sudan's prehistory and the premise of its history. It is the millennium before the rise of the kingdom of Kush with its capital in Kerma and it spans over the time,...