EGYPT: POST-NEW KINGDOM
NUBIA: PREHISTORIC AND NEOLITHIC THRU A-GROUP
- Photo: Nabta Playa Astronomical Observatory, Calendar Ring (c. 4500-3600 BC)
- Photo: Nabta Playa Astronomical Observatory (c. 4500-3600 BC)
- Plan: Nabta Playa Calendar Ring and Lines of Sight (c. 4500-3600 BC)
- Map: A-Group Domain, Lower Nubia (ca. 3700 BC-3000 BC)
- Map: A-Group Individual Sites
- Link: Oriental Institute Museum Database, Collection of A-Group Objects
- Drawing: Qustul Incense Burner, side and top (Cemetery L 24 [1])
- Photo/Drawing: Qustul Incense Burner (Cemetery L 24 [1])
- Drawing: "Archaic Horus" Incense Burner, Qustul (Cemetery L 11 [25])
- Link: Oriental Institute Museum, Qustul Incense Burner (explanation)
- Drawing: Gebel Sheikh Suleiman Inscription: Egyptian Victory over Nubia or A-Group Victory over Hierakonpolis?
NUBIA: OLD KINGDOM
- Map: Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Kush and Punt
- Map: Nubia, Old Kingdom (journeys of Harkhuf, Heqaib, etc.)
NUBIA C-GROUP AND KINGDOM OF KUSH - KERMA
- Map: Nubia and Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom
- Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River
- Map: Lower Nubia and Egypt, Second Intermediate Period
- Photo: Model of Nubian Archers Marching (Madjay (Cairo Museum)
- Map: Forts of the Middle Kingdom: Faras through the Second Cataract Region
- Map: Nubia, Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Amenemhat I
- Map: Nubia, Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Sesostris III
- Plan: Nubia, Fort of Buhen, Outer Fortifications and Citadel
- Plan: Nubia, Fort of Buhen-Detail of Citadel
- Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Buhen Fort and College of Charleston campus
- Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Buhen Fort and College of Charleston campus: Detail, Citadel
- Photo: Nubia, Ruins of Fort of Buhen (colorized)
- Composite Photos: Fort of Buhen (color)
- Photo: 3-Dimensional Reconstruction Buhen from the East (river)
- Photo: Ruins of Shalfak from the East (1962)
- Drawing: Plan and Reconstruction, Fort of Shalfak
- Photo & Sketch: "The Gate of Semna" (1898)
- Drawing: Nubia, Semna and Kumma Forts (color)
- Photo: View of Semna and Kumma from South (1898)
- Photo: View of Semna across to Kumma from West (1898)
- Photo: View of Kumma from West Bank (1898)
- Photo: Model of Kerma City (Bonnet)
- Plan: Kerma City (Bonnet)
- Plan: Kerma, Kushite Town (Bonnet)
- Photo: Kerma, Kushite Architectural Remains
- Photo: Kerma, Western Defuffa
- Plan: Kerma, W. Defuffa
- Composite: Kerma Royal Tomb, Tumulus KX, photo of storage galleries and reconstruction of tomb at burial rituals
- Plan: Kerma Royal Tomb (tumulus), diameter: 90 meters, with sacrificial corridor, burial chamber, and subsidiary grave pits
- Photo: Kerma Royal Tomb, Tumulus KX, sacrificial corridor strewn with skeletons of human sacrifices, and burial chamber entrance
- Photo: Kerma, Nubian Bed Burial (typical)
- Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River
NUBIA: NEW KINGDOM AND PRINCEDOM OF TEH-KHET
- Map: Nubia/Kush, All Forts, Temples, & Archaeological Remains (Old thru New Kingdoms)
- Photo: Dokki Gel, Egyptian ceremonial center at Kerma (palaces, temples, storehouses, workshops, columned halls, and gateways. Overview.
- Video: Kurgus, Haggar el-Merwa (Miw), Boundary Stelae of Thutmose I and Thutmose III
- Photo: Temple of Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia prior to Lake Nasser (Inundation season). Date: Dyn. 19; built by Ramesses II to Amun-Re, Re-Horakhy, Ptah and Ramesses II
- Photo: Temple of Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia, main temple facade
- Photo: Temple of Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia, main temple, moving the temple and statues to high ground
- Photo: Wall Relief: Distribution of Supplies and Clothing to Nubian Soldiers, Egyptian Army. Tomb of Horemheb, Saqqara.
- Photo: Wall Relief, Tomb of Huy: Procession of Egyptianized Nubians bringing tribute to King Tutankhamun
- Photo: Rulers of Nubia Bow Down and Give Praise to King Tutankhamun with their sons, princes of Nubia, processing behind them. Theban Tomb #40, Tomb of Huy. The princes are called, "The offspring of the rulers of all the (southern) foreign lands." These chiefs wear Nubian clothing fitting their rank. The princes wear Egyptian clothing, collars, wigs, and head pieces, but jewelry is Nubian.
- Photo: Procession of Egyptianized Nubian Princes coming before King Tutankhamun. Theban Tomb #40, Tomb of Huy. NB: Different skin colors reveal variant Lower Nubian tribal ethnicities.
- Photo: Egyptianized Nubian Princess--little girl, Coming to King Tutankhamun with Tribute. Theban Tomb #40, Tomb of Huy. NB: Her chariot, armed with a bow case, is drawn by pair of Nubian oxen. She is small, wears Nubian ornate feathered headdress and Egyptian wig. Tribute bearer carries sack of gold and leopard skin.
- Detail: Nubian Bearers with Tribute to King Tutankhamun: rings of gold, sack of gold dust, giraffe. Theban Tomb #40, Tomb of Huy.
- Photo: Wall Scene of Tutankhamun Enthroned Receiving Nubian Vassals (tomb of Huy)
- Photo: Decorated Box of Tutankhamun, Battle against Nubian bowmen. The fan-bearers behind the king include an Egyptian, Nubian, and Asiatic. Inscription: "The good god, image of Re, who appears (in battle) in foreign lands, just like the rising of Ra, he wiping away this land of vile Kush; shooting his arrows at the enemies."
- Photo: Tutankhamun Walking Stick Handle, Bound Nubian Captive. An example of sympathetic magic: as the king grips the handle, so he crushes Nubians and Nubia bound in his grasp.
- Drawing: Captured Peoples of the Egyptian Empire (personification of the "Nine Bows"-enemies), from the throne dais of Amenhotep III
- Photo: Medinet Habu Palace: Ceramic Wall Inlays, Depictions of Foreign Enemies: Libyan, Nubian, and Asiatics
- Photo: Medinet Habu Palace: Ceramic Wall Inlays, Depictions of Foreign Enemies: Nubians (2), Asiatics (2), Libyans (2)
- Photo: Nauri, Upper Nubia, Stela of Seti I
- Drawing, Nauri Decree Stela of Seti I
- Photo: Nauri Stela Lunette: Sety I presents ma'at to the gods.
- Drawing: Nauri Stela Detail, Lunette: Sety I presents ma'at to Amun-Re, Re-Horakhty, and Ptah-Neferher.
NUBIA: KINGDOM OF KUSH - NAPATA AND MEROË (DYNASTY 25 AND LATER)
- Photo: Wall Scene, Nubian Queen Katimala offering bouquet to Isis with victory inscription, Semna Temple (Dyn. 21-22). Oriental Institute photo P. 3348=N. 2420
- Photo: Wall Scene, Nubian Queen Katimala victory inscription (hieroglyphic text), Semna Temple (Dyn. 21-22). Oriental Institute photo P. 3349=N. 2423
- Drawing: Tableau of Queen Katimala at Semna (Dyn. 21-22 [after Darnell]
- Photo: Wall Scene, Kushite Queen, Napata (1906), enthroned, receiving incense, protected by winged Isis behind
- Photo: Wall Scene, Kushite Queen: Kandake, Meroë (1906), seated in pavilion, receiving food offerings
- Chart: Kings of 25th Dynasty, Family Lineage
- Drawing: Victory Stela of Piye, Gebel Barkal (Dyn. 25)
- Photo: el-Kurru, Pyramid of Piye and descending corridor (Dyn. 25)
- Painting: Reconstruction of Jebel Barkal Complex, Napatan Period
- Photo: Jebel Barkal, the "Pure Mountain", temple and palace at base
- Photo: High-sloped Pyramid Above Tomb of Sennedjem, Deir el-Medinah, Dyn. 19 (view retored of pyramids on other tombs)
- Photo: High-sloped Royal Pyramids of Meroë
- Photo: Wall Relief, Kushite King Arnekhamani before lion-god Apedemak, Prince Arka offers incense, Meroitic Period. Temple of Apedemak, Musawarat el-Sufra
- Photo: Statues of Kings Aspelta and Anlamani, Napatan Period
- Photo: Statues of Kushite Kings (Dyn. 25), found in statue cache at Kerma
- Photo: Hill of Qasr Ibrim from East = Roman Premnis (1962)
- Photo: Qasr Ibrim from the West = Roman Premnis (1890, colorized)
- Map: Indigenous Tribes of Northern Sudan, Nubian and Arab
- Photo: Amarar (Bedja) tribal warrior, 1929, Sudan, with sword, elephant-hide shield, and dagger
- Photo: Amarar (Bedja) warriors, 1929, Sudan
- Photo: Bishariin (Bedja) men, 1929, Egypt and Sudan
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