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To: nopardons

Ok it was off the top of my head. I didn’t check.
Consider Ahmose, son of Ebana, an Egyptian warrior who served under Nebpehtrya Ahmose (1539–1514 BC), the following taken from the autobiographical inscriptions on the walls of his tomb-chapel, the Egyptians undertook campaigns to defeat Kush and conquer Nubia under the rule of Amenhotep I (1514–1493 BC). In Ahmose’s writings, the Kushites are described as archers, “Now after his Majesty had slain the Bedoin of Asia, he sailed upstream to Upper Nubia to destroy the Nubian bowmen.” The tomb writings contain two other references to the Nubian bowmen of Kush. So, I took all that to mean from a geographic standpoint roughly the same.

I didn’t say Ptolemaic rule didn’t!

Cleopatra’s line continued through one of her daughters, where Cleopatra Selene II was wed to Juba II of Numidia. There are claims Queen Zenobia of Palmyra was descendent.


95 posted on 04/20/2023 6:33:11 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Reily
There is an archeological dispute as to WHERE the Kushite Empire actually was.Remnants of disappeared long ago and so all we are left with is written details about them and the fact that the Kush did rule Egypt for about 100 years.

There's more info about the Hittites, but like the Kush, they disappear into historical "fog" at some point.

It's a bit like the Queen of Sheba, in that Sheba MAY have been where Ethiopia is today, but nobody has actually nailed that one down as factual.

Nubia is another story...we do know where that was/is and the Kush may have used a neighboring nation's archers to fight with them in battles.

But for now, just WHERE the Kush Empire was, before they conquered Egypt, remains a mystery.

107 posted on 04/20/2023 1:58:53 PM PDT by nopardons
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