The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt by Professor Aidan Dodson FSA

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For a few decades during the 8th to 7th centuries BC, there was a remarkable reversal of the age-old imperial domination of Nubia by Egypt. In the wake of the fragmentation of the Egyptian state during the 8th century, the Kushite state that had evolved in Nubia since Egyptian withdrawal at the beginning of the 11th century expanded northwards, ultimately absorbing the south of Egypt, including Thebes itself. Having established themselves as overlords of the various regional rulers in Egypt, the Nubian pharaohs led a national revival in Egypt, until an Assyrian onslaught drove them back into Nubia, where their composite of Egyptian and Nubian culture would survive into the 4th century AD.

Aidan Dodson is honorary Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, UK, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2003. He studied at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for the Spring of 2013, and Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. He is the author of some 30 books (on both Egyptology and modern naval history), and his book on the Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt was published by the American University in Cairo Press at the end of last year.

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