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May 22, 2024 · Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
- Nubian Languages
The Nubian languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized:...
- Cataracts
The word "cataract" comes from the Greek word καταρρέω ("to...
- Nubian Languages
May 22, 2024 · The Kingdom of Kush ( / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙 𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣEcōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁKūš ), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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6 days ago · Goddess of kingship and protection of the kingdom. Isis holds the king, Seti I, in her lap, thirteenth century BCE. Horus was equated with each living pharaoh and Osiris with the pharaoh's deceased predecessors. Isis was therefore the mythological mother and wife of kings.
1 day ago · Hyksos ( / ˈhɪksɒs /; Egyptian ḥqꜣ (w) - ḫꜣswt, Egyptological pronunciation: heqau khasut, [4] "ruler (s) of foreign lands") is a term which, in modern Egyptology, designates the kings of the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt [5] (fl. c. 1650–1550 BC). [a] The seat of power of these kings was the city of Avaris in the Nile Delta, from ...
3 days ago · Arensnuphis – A Nubian deity who appears in Egyptian temples in Lower Nubia in the Greco-Roman era; Asclepius – A Greek god worshipped in Egypt at Saqqara; Ash – A god of the Libyan Desert and oases west of Egypt; Astennu – A baboon god associated with Thoth. Ba – A god of fertility; Ba-Ra
6 days ago · The Ptolemaic dynasty (/ ˌ t ɒ l ɪ ˈ m eɪ. ɪ k /; Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period.
2 days ago · In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. It is spoken by at least 13.5 million people today in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania, Turkey, and the many other countries of the Greek diaspora .
