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 | | By the first century BC, for example, the Greek historian Diodorus reported a legend that Osiris, the mythical first king of Egypt, was really a Nubian and that he had come from the south to colonize Egypt. |
 | | About 1800 BC, the Kushite kings of Kerma began to have imperial ambitions, and the scanty surviving evidence reveals that they represented themselves much in the manner of the Egyptian pharaohs. |
 | | After about 300 BC, however, a radical change occurred in their art and culture, which marked the beginning of the Meroitic Period, in which figures in art, especially royal figures, assume a much more central African appearance and their royal costumes become much more elaborate. |
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