Upper Nubia is the southernmost part of Nubia, upstream on the Nile from Lower Nubia. It is so called because the Nile flows north, so it is further upstream and of higher elevation in relation to Lower Nubia.
The extension of Upper Nubia is rather ill-defined and depends on the researchers’ approach.
UpperNubia is the southernmost part of Nubia, upstream on the Nile from Lower Nubia. It is so called because the Nile flows north, so it is further upstream...
NubiaNubia (/ˈnjuːbiə/) (Nobiin: Nobīn, Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first...
Triakontaschoinos. It is downstream on the Nile from UpperNubia. During the Middle Kingdom, Lower Nubia was occupied by Egypt. when the Egyptians withdrew...
This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern...
around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. The Kerma culture was based in the southern part of Nubia, or "UpperNubia" (in parts of present-day northern...
The Roman Empire used the term "Nubia" to describe the area of Upper Egypt and northern Sudan The prehistory of Nubia dates to the Paleolithic around...
around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. The Kerma culture was based in the southern part of Nubia, or "UpperNubia" (in parts of present-day northern...
were not planted in ordered rows. Around twenty archaeological sites in UpperNubia give evidence for the existence of the Qadan culture's grain-grinding...
Nubia is the term commonly used by scholars to refer to the land located south of Ancient Egypt, from the city of Elephantine down to modern-day Khartoum...
The geographical region of ancient Nubia covers the area from the First Cataract at Aswan in the north, to the Blue and White Niles at Khartoum in the...
therefore reported back on his conversion to the Kandake. Evidence outside of Nubia that shows additional links to Kushite's queenship concept are found in...
around 500 CE until circa 1500 CE, Christian kingdoms were thriving in UpperNubia and southwards along the Nile. They built important cities, known by...
concentrated in the Upper Egyptian Naqada culture and A-Group Lower Nubia. He further elaborated that "Egyptian writing arose in Naqadan Upper Egypt and A-Group...
successors and was the first recorded prince of Kush. He unified all of UpperNubia from Meroë to the Third Cataract and is possibly attested at the Temple...
centers of the Old World, and Nubia was divided into independent cultures. King Alara (ca. 785-765 BC) united Nubia from UpperNubia to the Third Cataract and...
kingdom when the Ottomans occupied Lower Nubia in the 1560s, while the Funj had come into possession of UpperNubia south of the third cataract. By the early...
such as landforms, climatic regions, or vegetation types: Nubia (Lower Nubia) (UpperNubia) Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt The Maghreb is a region of northwest...
Abu Simbel, at the Second Nile Cataract, the border between Lower Nubia and UpperNubia. There are two temples, the Great Temple, dedicated to Ramesses...
First Cataract, at the southern border of Upper Egypt with Lower Nubia. This region above is referred to as Upper Egypt because it is further up the Nile...
throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer initially to a nomadic group from Nubia and later as a generic term for desert-ranger police. The first mention...
Uses in Nubia". Égypte/Monde arabe (27–28): 67–76. doi:10.4000/ema.1032. Ochała, Grzegorz (10 June 2014). "Multilingualism in Christian Nubia: Qualitative...
design patterns are exclusive to female art forms. Kadada figurines from UpperNubia, which have been dated to 3600 BCE, feature markings that may be tattooing...
Apedemak appears to have become an important deity to the peoples living in UpperNubia. Numerous temples to Apedemak are concentrated in the Butana region,...
as C-group, migrated from Lower Nubia (the area between present-day Aswan and Wadi Halfa) and settled in UpperNubia (the Nile Valley north of Dongola...
archaeological research indicates that during the pre-dynastic period Lower Nubia and Magadan Upper Egypt were ethnically, and culturally nearly identical, and thus...
Part of a series on History of Nubia Topics Nubia Names of Nubia History of Sudan Military Lower NubiaUpperNubia Kingdoms A-Group Alodia B-Group Blemmyes...
ago[when?]. Kerma is one of the largest archaeological sites in ancient Nubia. It has produced decades of extensive excavations and research, including...
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