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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.
- Nubian Languages
The Nubian languages (Arabic: لُغَات نُوبِيّة, romanized:...
- Cataracts
The word "cataract" comes from the Greek word καταρρέω ("to...
- Nubians
Modern Nubians speak Nubian languages, Eastern Sudanic...
- Nubian Languages
Old Nubian is one of the oldest written African languages and appears to have been adopted from the 10th–11th century as the main language for the civil and religious administration of Makuria. Besides Old Nubian, Koine Greek was widely used, especially in religious contexts, while Coptic mainly predominates in funerary inscriptions. [2]
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Apr 9, 2024 · A Nubian gentleman guarding the Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel. Image Credits: Arunansh B. Goswami. André Bernand of the French National Council for Scientific Research and Abdullatif Ahmed Aly, a professor at Cairo University write about Nubia: “Here, on the confines of the Greek world, in these distant ‘marches’ of the Roman world, the mercenaries of King Psammetichus, of the ...
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The modern region of "Nubia". Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile River and in what is now northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing boundaries, modern Nubia is roughly thought of as the region along the Nile, south of Aswan, up to the Fourth Cataract of the Nile in Sudan. Most of Nubia is situated in Sudan ...
Some Nubian seal impressions depict a bow above a rectangle (right), probably the earliest writing of Ta-Seti, “Land of the Bow,” an ancient Egyptian name for Nubia. The A-Group flourished until it was destroyed by pharaohs of Egypt’s First Dynasty around 3100 BC. Much of northern Nubia was not inhabited for centuries afterwards, at least ...
Jan 13, 2021 · This article traces the history of Greek and Roman views about Nubia from the end of the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Throughout this period, knowledge of Nubia was mediated through Egypt. As a result, it is clear that knowledge of the geography and ethnography of Nubia fluctuated with the extent of involvement in Egypt, expanding in the 5th ...
