Nubia

Nubia was an ancient African kingdom and it dates back to around 6000 B.C.E. and it was in both North Africa and East Africa.

They were a valuable culture because of their trading abilities. They were on the coast of the Red Sea. That gave them many ports from which they were able to trade. This culture, though, had many hardships. It declined in power many times, which forced it to break up into smaller kingdoms which flourished on their own. These are commonly referred to as the A-Group, B-Group, and C-Group. Their true decline was around C.E.350, when the kingdom of Axum invaded and broke up the culture once again. This time, the culture never recovered its strength, thus ending of Historic Nubia.

Nubia

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Statues of several Nubian rulers of the late 25th Dynasty–early Napatan era, 7th century B.C.E. From left to right: Tantamani, Taharqa (rear), Senkamanisken, again Tantamani (rear), Aspelta, Anlamani, again Senkamanisken. Kerma Museum.

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Outline of Nubia (modern-day Sudan)

Nubia Media

• Megaliths Aswan Nubia museum.JPG

  Megaliths from Nabta Playa displayed in the Aswan Nubian museum

• Nubian A group.jpg

  "A-Group" style, Nubian pottery, Musee du Louvre

• Qustul Incense Burner, Qustal, Nubia, Cemetery L, tomb 24, A-Group, 3200-3000 BC, limestone - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC08007.JPG

  Qustul incense burner, 3200–3000 BC

• Kerma 1.jpg

  Kerma style pottery (2500–1500 BC)

• Western Deffufa - Kerma.jpg

  The Western Deffufa of Sudan

• Daggers of bone and copper, 1750-1450 BCE, Kerma, British Museum EA55442.jpg

  Daggers of bone and copper, 1750–1450 BC, Kerma, British Museum EA55442

• Exposition Nubia, Land of the Black Pharaohs – Mirror. Kerma Period, 1700-1550 BC.jpg

  Mirror. Kerma Period, 1700–1550 BC.

• Nubian Prince Hekanefer bringing tribute for King Tut, 18th dynasty, Tomb of Huy.jpg

  Nubian Prince Heqanefer bringing tribute for King Tutankhamun, 18th dynasty, Tomb of Huy. Circa 1342 – c. 1325 BC

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  The Turin Papyrus Map, dating to about 1160 BC

• Ramesses II in his war chariot charging into battle against the Nubians

Other websites

• "Journey to Ethiopia, Eastern Sudan, and Nigritia", an old book from the 1800s that talks about Nubia