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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Taharqa, Kingdom of Kush, Meroe, List of monarchs of Kush, Nabta Playa, Piye, Naqa, Shebitku, Meroitic script, Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt, Cush, Aethiopia, Napata, Kashta, Amanitore, Nubian pyramids, Nuri, Kerma culture, Setau, El-Kurru, Tantamani, Ahmose called Turo, Wad ban Naqa, Pebatjma, Viceroy of Kush, Merymose, Tabiry, Amenhotep called Huy, Meroitic language, Khensa, Yuny, Abar, Paser I, Tabekenamun, Pennesuttawy, Seti, Qalhata, Naparaye, Takahatenamun, Heqanakht, Peksater, Nehi, Hori II, Atakhebasken, Wentawat, Ahmose called Si-Tayit, Amenemopet, Sanam, Sudan, Majaji, Tuthmose, Sekhmakh, Anhotep, Cushan, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire. Excerpt: The Kingdom of Kush or Cush was an ancient Nubian state centered on the confluences of the Blue Nile, White Nile and River Atbara in what is now the Republic of Sudan. Established after the Bronze Age collapse and the disintegration of the New Kingdom of Egypt, it was centered at Napata in its early phase. After king Kashta ("the Kushite") invaded Egypt in the 8th century BC, the Kushite kings ruled as Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt for a century, until they were expelled by Psamtik I in 656 BC. During Classical Antiquity, the Nubian capital was at Meroe. In early Greek geography, the Meroitic kingdom was known as Ethiopia. The Nubian kingdom at Meroe persisted until the 4th century AD, when it fell to the expanding kingdom of Axum. .k KashThe native name of the kingdom was likely ka, recorded in Egyptian as . The name Kash is probably connected to Cush in the Hebrew Bible (Hebrew: ), son of Ham (Genesis 10:6). The conventional name "kingdom of Kush" was introduced in 19th-century Egyptology. During the New Kingdom of Egypt, Nubia (Kash) was an Egyptian province, governed by the Viceroy of Kush. With the disintegration of the...
