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4 days ago · Egypt in Nubia. 11th Dynasty model of Nubian archers in the Egyptian army, from a tomb in Asyut (c. 2130–1991 BC). In 2300 BC, Nubia was first mentioned in Old Kingdom Egyptian accounts of trade missions. The Egyptians referred to Lower Nubia as Wawat, Irtjet, and Setju, while they referred to Upper Nubia as Yam.
- Nubian Languages
The Nubian languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized:...
- Cataracts
The Six Cataracts. Counted going upstream (from north to...
- Nubian Languages
2 days ago · Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political unification ...
4 days 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 ...
1 day ago · In ancient Egypt, coffins were made from a range of materials: wood, stone and even basketry. Some, however, were made of cartonnage – a remarkable, cardboard-like laminated material. Layers of textiles or papyrus, were stuck together with glue, wrapped over a human-shaped mould (called a 'former'), almost like ancient Egyptian papier mâché.
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2 days ago · The Nile was also the main transportation route, facilitating trade and communication within Egypt and with neighboring regions. Goods, people, and ideas moved along this aquatic highway, helping to unify upper and lower Egypt politically and culturally and promoting trade with distant territories like Punt and Nubia, which provided gold ...
3 days ago · Ranran (Angela) Zhang (CAS’24), a student researcher in BU’s Environmental Archaeology Lab (EAL), designed an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program project to analyze the charcoal samples to understand how ancient communities along the Nile—described as “the lifeblood of ancient Egypt”—used the plants and trees around them.
1 day ago · Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and literate societies. Learn more about Egypt in this article.
