Napata

Napata in hieroglyphic

Napata pyramids

From the 19th Dynasty on, the town of Napata in Nubia became an serious center of Nubian civilization and finally the capital of Upper Nubia (which was likewise addressed Napata or Napata-Meroe), a kingdom that had hit its independency from Egypt. In the Twenty-fourth Dynasty, military forces from this kingdom gone north into Egypt, where one of Napatas kings, Piankhy-Piye, shown the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Although this Nubian dynasty went less than one hundred years, Napata survived as an individual kingdom until sometime during the 4rth century A.D.

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