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Apr 9, 2024 · Lower Nubia was the northern part of the region, located between the second and the first cataract of Aswān; this was called Wawat.
Nubia ( / ˈnjuːbiə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] 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.
See a map of Nubia in 500 BCE. At this time it has established its political independence from Egypt, and its civilization is also developing along distinctive lines.
Figure 1: Modern map of Nubia with ancient Lower Nubia highlighted (Adaptation from Google Maps) The inhabitants of Nubia were known to the classical writers (e.g. Herodotus) as ‘the Ethiopians’, the people with the burnt faces (Welsby 2002; Shinnie, 1967).
The article considers types of graves found to be typical of the Meroitic, post-Meroitic and Christian Nubian kingdom periods and recapitulates the different typologies published by various excavators over the last century. Research has produced differentiated data sets for given areas, thus confirming the multi-ethnic character of lower Nubia.
- Salomé Z U R I N A G A Fernández-Toribio
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Jan 13, 2021 · Abstract. The history of the medieval Nubian state begins as it ends, in a state of decentralization. The core of that state emerges through the unification of Nobadia in the north and Makuria in the center of the Nubian heartland, perhaps at some point in the 7th century.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1926 (26.3.231) Egypt conquered all of Nubia during the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.), installing viceroys who administered the lands and collected tribute (fig. 4). New Kingdom pharaohs commissioned an impressive group of temples in a variety of locations.
