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Lower Nubia. Lower Nubia (also called Wawat) [1] [2] is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern Lake Nasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction of the Aswan High Dam. Many ancient Lower Nubian monuments, and all its modern population, were relocated as part of the International ...
Among the earliest records of any African language is an Italian-Nubian word list collected in Egypt about 1635 by Arcangelo Carradori, a Franciscan monk, and based on the Nile Nubian Kenzi and Nobiin dialects. With Midob and Birked, the Nile Nubian languages probably represent ancient instances of linguistic dispersion.
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Apr 9, 2024 · The southern portion, which extended north to the southern end of the second cataract of the Nile was known as Upper Nubia; this was called Kush (Cush) under the 18th-dynasty pharaohs of ancient Egypt and was called Ethiopia by the ancient Greeks. Lower Nubia was the northern part of the region, located between the second and the first cataract ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 13, 2021 · Historically, the volume presents three Nubias: Islamic Nubia from the 15 th century, Christian Nubia from the 6 th century CE, and ancient Nubia, which centered for almost three millennia on Kush, but always encompassing diverse languages and cultures. From early times, relations with Egypt were important and sometimes decisive.
Nov 21, 2022 · The name “ Nubia” refers to two areas: Lower Nubia, the zone be tween present-day Aswan and Wadi Halfa, and Upper Nubia, the Nile Va lley north of Dongola in Sudan, a nd extending as fa r ...
- Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal
Dec 6, 2023 · Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush, an introduction. by The British Museum. Aegis of Isis, Kushite, late 3rd century B.C.E., from Kawa, Sudan (© The Trustees of the British Museum) The first settlers in northern Sudan date back 300,000 years. It is home to the oldest sub-Saharan African kingdom, the kingdom of Kush (about 2500–1500 B.C.E.).
Of the different local languages spoken in antiquity in Nubia and central Sudan, only one, Meroitic, is well documented, although it has not yet been fully deciphered. It was actually the only language of Nubia endowed with a specific script, but only in its latest stages, from the 3rd century BC onward.
