Saviors from the South?
Saviors from the South?
Rise of the Nubian kings. Piye and Kushite armies besieged the coalitions of the chief Tefnakhte at Hermopolis; Piye's success there was followed by the taking of Lahun, Meidum, Lisht and Memphis, and he proceeded into the Delta. The Kushite royal succession Assyrian interactions Taharqa son of Piye may have been the first king to build on the sacred island of Isis at Philae; his main building program between the Third and Fourth Cataracts, and a new cemetery at Nuri including its largest pyramid. In 671
Keywords: Gebel Barkal, Piye, Nimlot, Tefnakhte, El-Kurru tombs, Taharqa, Shabaka, Sennacherib
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