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Afterglow of Empire: Egypt from the Fall of the New Kingdom to the Saite Renaissance

Aidan Dodson

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9789774165313

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2012

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774165313.001.0001

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Saviors from the South?

Saviors from the South?

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(p.139) 5 Saviors from the South?
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Afterglow of Empire
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Aidan Dodson

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American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774165313.003.0006

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 bc the Assyrians defeated Taharqa in Egypt at Memphis, and took most of the royal family captive. Taharqa regained power several years later but the Assyrian king Ashur-banipal again took control. Tanutamun succeeded Taharqa.

Keywords:   Gebel Barkal, Piye, Nimlot, Tefnakhte, El-Kurru tombs, Taharqa, Shabaka, Sennacherib

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