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    scarab seal from Abydos and a kneeling statuette of the king, possibly from Kerma. At Abydos, a fragmentary funerary stela dedicated to the god Wepwawet mentions...
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    three Kushite kingdoms during antiquity. The capital of the first was at Kerma (2500–1500 BC). The second was centered on Napata (1000–300 BC). The third...
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    Ghana, northern Nigeria, Mali) and Nile Valley (e.g., Ballana, Qustul, Kerma, Kush). Based on artifacts found in the tumuli from West Africa and Nubia...
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  • Ammon. A solar deity in the form of a ram can be traced to the pre-literate Kerma culture in Nubia, contemporary to the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The later (Meroitic...
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    12th Dynasty (ca. 2000 BC) in the Egyptian execration texts concerning Kerma. Meroitic names and phrases appear in the New Kingdom Book of the Dead (Book...
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    Tomb of a Previously Unknown Pharaoh". Penn Museum. January 2014. Retrieved 16 January 2014. Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte...
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    The Kerma culture was an early civilization which flourished from around 2500 BC to about 1600 BC in Nubia, present day Sudan, centered at Kerma. It seems...
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    Kerma and the Hyksos are further attested by seals with the names of Asiatic rulers or with designs known from Avaris at Kerma. The troops of Kerma are...
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    to the south, the region called Nubia (modern Sudan). Beginning with the Kerma culture and continuing with the Kingdom of Kush based at Napata and then...
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    beginning of the 20th century, European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein all recounted their discoveries of desiccated...
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    pharaoh, Nectanebo II in 343 BCE" von Beckerath, Jürgen (1999). Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen. Verlag Philipp von Zabern. pp. 266–267. ISBN 978-3422008328...
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    the Nubian part of the Nile in several campaigns against the Kingdom of Kerma and had temples built in several places, immortalising themselves in inscriptions...
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    between Aswan and Maharraqa, the Mahasi, who settled between Maharraqa and Kerma and the Danagla, the southernmost of the remaining Nile Valley Nubians....
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    17: 127–133. von Beckerath, Jürgen (1999). Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen (in German) (2nd ed.). Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. pp. 206–207...
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    Nubian territory and the three ancient capitals of the Kushite kingdom: Kerma, Napata and Meroë. These archaeological sites are registered in UNESCO's...
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    the Egyptian fortresses of Uronarti and Mirgissa and otherwise in Dakka, Kerma, Sayala, Aniba, Masmas, Faras, Ukma, Akasha and Sai. Finally, two seal impressions...
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    This in turn suggests that the C-Group population—which, along with the Kerma culture, inhabited the Nile valley immediately before the arrival of the...
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    nomarchs of Elephantine, alabaster vessels bearing Pepi's cartouche found in Kerma and inscriptions in Tumas report this. The Sixth Dynasty royal annals also...
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    modern-day Sudan around 2600 BC. A furnace for bronze casting found in Kerma dated back to 2300–1900 BC. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt lasted from 2055...
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    his pyramid produced many small artefacts which are now on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, US. Atlanersa's most-prominent construction is his...
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    Janeiro, in Brazil. Sudan dates its national identity to the Kingdom of Kerma, Kingdom of Kush and other ancient kingdoms that existed in its territory...
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    world, around 11500 BC, A-Group culture (c. 3800 BC–3100 BC), Kingdom of Kerma (c. 2500–1500 BC), the Egyptian New Kingdom (c. 1500 BC–1070 BC), and the...
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    Seima-Turbino culture SUMER ELAM INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION EGYPT MIDDLE KINGDOM Kerma culture Longshan Qijia Xichengyi Linya Zhukaigou Shimao Baodun Shijiahe...
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  • ISBN 978-0-521-68495-8. Eichner, Heiner (2012). "Neues zur Sprache der Stele von Lemnos (Erster Teil)" [New Research on the Language on the Stele of Lemnos]...
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    Nuri, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, 1955, fig. 212. Von Beckerath, Jürgen (1997). Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen. Mainz: Von Zabern...
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    and the homeland of the Iranians". Persica. 16. doi:10.2143/PERS.16.0.511. von Le Coq, Albert. (1913). Chotscho: Facsimile-Wiedergaben der Wichtigeren Funde...
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    including wall paintings and painted objects. At the Sudanese site of Kerma, center of the Kerma culture that predated the Kingdom of Kush, a circa 1700 BC fragmentary...
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    such as Bubastis, Tell el-Borg, Heliopolis, Memphis, Nekhen, Kawa, and Kerma. He also ordered the construction of a large temple complex dedicated to...
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    Nubia saw the arrival of the C-Group people from the south. Centred at Kerma, they struggled intermittently with Egypt and its allies over control of...
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    2016. Marvin Perry, Myrna Chase, James Jacob, Margaret Jacob, Theodore H. Von Laue (1 January 2012). Western Civilization: Since 1400. Cengage Learning...
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