Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...
Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt ... to this mysterious culture that had absorbed the ancient traditions of pharaonic Egypt. Construction of the south and west cemeteries begins in Meroë ...
When we hear about pyramids, we usually think of Egypt’s famous structures like the Great Pyramid of Giza.But do you know ...
The first of these was Piye, who successfully invaded Egypt to kick off the new dynasty ... to be commemorated with a pyramid at Sudan's ancient El-Kurru necropolis. After the Kushites lost ...