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	Ancient Egypt: The Napata Stela of Thutmose III
		Ancient Egypt: The Napata Stela of Thutmose III
		He is a king, strong like Montu who robs, but no one has robbed him, who tramples all foreign lands that rebel, without one who could protect them in that land of Naharin [4] that his lord had left for fear.
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	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/napata_stela.htm (400 words)

	napata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Napata was most likely the Southern limit of the Egyptian Empire, located in Nubia and was around from about 1460 to 1100 B.C. There is a mountain near by that the ancient Egyptians believed Amen-Ra lived in which was called Gebel Barkal.
		Napata was also known for its ferry and customs station, they seemed to have stored a lot of goods before sending them to Egypt.
		Napata originally had some strategic significance, which later dwindled to the attention focused on the mountain.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/egypt/0100/LOCATS/napata.htm (201 words)

	Gebel Barkal
		Napata was the capital of the Kingdom of Cush.
		The original Napata was on the southern side of the Nile, Gebel Barkal on the northern side.
		Napata would remain the religious capital of Cush, in which it remained the site of the royal cemetery.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/gebel_barkal.htm (453 words)

	Ethiopia
		Greek writers often call this region the kingdom of Napata, or of Meroë;, after two cities that were successively the centre of its political life during the second period of its history.
		The election took place at Napata, in the great temple, under the supervision of the priests of Amun-Ra, and in the presence of a number of special delegates chosen by the magistrates, the literati, the soldiers, and the officers of the palace.
		The members of the reigning family, "the royal brethren", were brought into the sanctuary and presented one after another to the statue of the god, who indicated his choice by a signal previously agreed upon.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/ethiopia.html (5705 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Napata was a city on the west bank of the Nile river, some 400 km north of Khartoum, the present capital of Sudan.
		Napata could have traded on copper with a kingdom in Central Africa between the 8th and 9th Centuries (UNESCO, 2003).
		Furthermore, the capital was suffering politically and economically as well: Napata lost its economic influence since Egyptians were no longer autonomous (see The Late Period of ancient Egypt), the Napatan Region itself was desiccating, leading to less cattle and agriculture.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Napata (680 words)

	the Napatan Period
		The next king Piy is already well-known from a stela found at Napata, on which he reports a campaign to Egypt.
		The Napatan Period (about 700 - 300 BC) is named after the town Napata, where an Amun temple was built and where the kings were buried in small pyramids (the cemeteries are located not far at Nuri and el Kurru).
		Napata was the religious centre of the country.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /nubia/napatan.html (425 words)

	d. The Kingdoms of Napata and Meroe. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Tenuatamum (664–656) was driven from Egypt by the Assyrians, but the dynasty continued to rule in Napata.
		In 591, Psamtek II (595–589) invaded Kush and captured Napata (See 747–656), and Aspelta moved the capital south to Meroë;, near the Sixth Cataract.
		B.C.E. Meroë; became the political capital, but Meroitic rulers continued to be buried at Napata (which was recaptured) to the end of the fourth century.
	www.bartleby.com /67/99.html (274 words)

	Ancient Nubian Pyramids
		Later Napata became the seat of royal authority of an independent Nubian kingdom called Kush, and from about 720 to 660 BCE its kings conquered and ruled Egypt as the 25th Dynasty.
		Somehow, by restoring the old Egyptian cult places, especially Gebel Barkal, they were able to present themselves both within Nubia and especially at Thebes, as the true successors of the pharaohs of the New Kingdom and the direct heirs to their throne.
		On the unpublished rear wall the goddess is shown lion-headed on the right ("south") together with the ram-headed Amun of Napata, while on the left ("north") she is human-headed as she stands with the anthropomorphic Amun of Karnak.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/nubian105.html (2655 words)

	Aspelta Information
		He then set out north to Napata be selected as king by the gods and crowned.
		In 591 BCE Kush was invaded by the Egyptians under Pharaoh Psammetik II, perhaps because Aspelta had been preparing to reconquer Egypt.
		The invaders sacked Napata, and some historians believe that because of this attack Aspelta decided to move the capital to the more secure city of Meroe.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Aspelta (202 words)

	NUBIA
		The destruction of the Nubian capital Kerma lead to the establishment of Napata as the center of Nubian life.
		The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II built a temple of Amon at the base of the mountain Jebel Barkal, which was located in Napata.
		In 591 B.C., Napata (the Nubian capital) was sacked.
	www.internetpuppets.org /afrnubia.html (1518 words)

	Nubia
		In the 8th Century BC a new and powerful Kushite kingdom emerged in the region of Napata, this was to go on to become the greatest civilisation of Nubia.
		The chief city of Nubia in the 6th century BC (although it was used as a royal residence as early as the 8th century BC), the rulers of Nubia were buried here in steeply sided pyramids.
		From the beginning of the 3rd Century BC there was a gradual shift away from the pharaonic influence of Egypt, it was then that the royal burials became to be placed at Meroe than at the cemetaries close to Napata.
	members.tripod.com /~ib205/nubia.html (1070 words)

	Sudan, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		For more than 500 years, the Kushite rulers are buried beneath steep-sided pyramids in cemeteries near Napata, which gives its name to this period of the kingdom of Kush.
		Kushite rule over Egypt is brought to an end when the Assyrians conquer Egypt and the last of the great Kushite pharaohs, Taharqo, is driven from Egypt back to Napata.
		Meroë;, already an important center during the Napatan Period, becomes the capital of the Kushite kingdom.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/04/afs/ht04afs.htm (415 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Napata is an ancient egyptian/Nubian city located near the Nile in southern part of the country, representing the southern limit of the Egyptian empire from around 1460 to 1100 B.C. Napata became the center of the Nubian Kingdom from around 800 B.C. and lasted for over 400 years.
		Nubia, referred to by the egyptians as Kush, represents the area south of the Egyptian empire in Africa, which was strongly influence by the Egyptians.
		Napata is located in the Fourth Cataract on the Gebel Barkal, a small mountain where the Egyptian and Nubians believe the god Amun resided.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/archaeology/sites/napata.html (329 words)

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		It is now generally assumed that Napata was never more than the chief religious center of the kingdom, and that the political capital, after Dynasty 25, was always Mero‘, about 170 miles (280 km) to the southeast.
		The Meroitic Period, which began about the mid-third century BC, was significantly different and is thought to have begun when the kings abandoned Napata as their burial site and began to construct their pyramids at Meroe.
		At the same time, the use of Egyptian language and writing sharply declines and formal inscriptions began to be written in the native language, called Meroitic, which was expressed in a newly devised native alphabetic script.
	www.nubianet.org /about/about_history7.html (1376 words)

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		Even the god¹s temples at Karnak and Napata carried the same name: Ipet-sut ("Sanctuary of the Thrones"), which allowed these shrines, for religious purposes, to be deliberately confused.
		Even the name of Napata itself, and the local epithet of its god - "Amun of Napata" (Imn Npt) - may have been contrived to form puns with other very common names of the Theban god, such as "Amen, Lord of Heaven" (Imn Nb-pt) and "Amun of the Sanctuary" (Imn Ipt).
		In 24 BC, Napata was attacked, plundered, and "razed to the ground" by a Roman army.
	www.arkamani.org /arkamani-library/napatan/barkal_ancient_nubia.htm (3851 words)

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		During the Napatan Period (also called the Kingdom of Napata), both the political capital of Kush and the Kushite royal tombs were located at the city of Napata.
		Piye, residing at Napata, responded by ordering his army in Thebes to attack and lift the siege of Heracleopolis and to resecure the loyalty of Hermopolis.
		Long after the Kushite kings moved to Meroe, they still returned to Napata to be crowned in the temple there and to be buried in the holy cemeteries nearby.
	members.lycos.co.uk /AnnePowell/queen_resources/history_nubia.html (4121 words)

	MEROITIC CHRONOLOGY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
		Besides, Strabo mentioned expressly ("..and stormed Napata; but this was the residence of Kandaka, and her son was also there") that at Petronius' time Napata was in fact the residence.
		This coup d'état found its visible expression in the transfer of the burial-ground of the kings from Napata to Meroe.
		According to the facts which I fully substantiated in 1962, Arnekhamani was a contemporary of Ptolemy IV (221-203 B.C.); at that time I worked out the period from 235 to 218 B.C. for him which I still consider to be the most probable one.
	www.arkamani.org /arkamani-library/meroitic/meroitic_chronology.htm (4711 words)

	Learning Sites--Gebel Barkal, Nubia, History
		The city he founded there was called Napata.
		Later Napata became the seat of royal authority of an independent Nubian kingdom called Kush, and from about 720 to 660
		Napata was the political capital of Upper Egypt (northward to Memphis) during the late-8th-century reign of Piyankhy (or Piye).
	www.learningsites.com /GebelBarkal-2/GB-hist2.htm (434 words)

	Meroitic period
		The Napatan Phase of the Nubian culture ended when the royal cemetery was transferred from Napata to Meroe in the early third century BC.
		It was situated at the junction of several main river and caravan routes, connecting central Africa, via the Blue and White Niles, with Egypt, and the Upper Nile region itself with Kordofan, the Red Sea and the Ethiopian highlands.
		He met and defeated a Meroitic army and drove on to Napata, which was said to have been captured and destroyed by him, and its inhabitants enslaved.
	numibia.net /nubia/meroe.htm (2230 words)

	Amazon.com: Napata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The capital was moved from Napata, its religious center, to Mero,...
		Piankhi on the throne of Napata and Egypt.
		Taharqa, one of Napata's rulers, was considered a sufficient...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Napata&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (855 words)

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		More is known about the reign of Kashta's son Piye (pronounced "pie"), whose name was formerly read as Piankhy, Egyptian for "the living one." Piye left a large stela, now in the Cairo Museum, describing the major events in his reign.
		When Taharqa died, after having returned to Napata, he left southern Egypt under the control of his nephew and successor, Tantamani.
		Aspalta is also the first king whose name has been found at Meroe, in the south, although the formal southwar d shift of the capital seems to have taken place slightly later.
	library.thinkquest.org /22845/kush/napatan.html (855 words)

	Egypt: The Nubian Pyramids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Afterwards, he returned to Napata where he founded a Nubian dynasty, Egypt's 25th, that would last for about a century.
		No evidence has really surfaced about why this transfer was made, though there is some speculation that the Meroe may have slowly gained importance beginning as early as 590 BC, after Psamtik II campaigned in northern Nubia.
		Most traffic from Napata to Meroe, however, took the road along the Wadi Abu Dom that cuts across the great bend of the Nile from the Fourth to the Sixth Cataracts.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/nubiapyramids.htm (2859 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nubia
		A temple was built at Napata (near the Fourth Cataract) by Amenophis III, and Rameses II waged successful war with the Ethiopians.
		After this there arose in Napata near the sacred mountain Gebel Barkal an independent theocratic state; the remains of many of its temples are still to be seen.
		In the third century after Christ marauding incursions of Nubian tribes called the Biemmyer forced Diocletian to summon the Nobatæ from El Charge in the Nile valley as confederates of the empire.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11147a.htm (1578 words)

	KUSH: Black Africa's Civilization Before Egypt
		Lying to the north of today's Sudan between the 2nd and the 6th cataracts on the Nile, the land of Nubia was first the scene of a particularly inventive neolithic period.
		From then on, the "Black Pharaohs" who wore the double uraeus (royal serpent fixed to the head-dress), symbol of their double royalty, were to install in Egypt a period of peace, prosperity and artistic renewal which reached its peak under King Taharqa(690 - 664 B.C.).
		A vast ensemble of temples was built near Napata, in the Gebel Barkal.
	www.culturekiosque.com /art/exhibiti/rhesouda.htm (1391 words)

	Egyptian History - Late Kingdom
		This Dynasty is referred to as the Kushite dynasty, and was ruled by a series of kings from Nubia.
		Assyrian invasion of lower Egypt during the reign of Taharqa In 663 BC., Taharqa withdraws to Napata.
		Nectanebo II fled to Nubia, where he found refuge at the court of King Nastesen of Napata.
	www.aldokkan.com /egypt/late_kingdom.htm (357 words)

	Ancient Meroe:
		This power, called the Kingdom of Napata and Meroe is also known as the Kingdom of Kush.
		The Kingdom of Kush is divided into 2 periods, the Napatan Period lasting until 270 BC and the Meroitic Period existing from the fall of that kingdom toward the year 320 AD.
		There is a greater emphasis on Amun of Napata as a traditional god.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~rauhn/ancient_africa.htm (2509 words)

	XXVth Dynasty
		By the mid-eighth century the chieftains of Napata, the centre of the cult of Amun in Nubia, had become overlords of Nubia and were already entertaining pretensions to rule Egypt as well.
		From marriage of Alara with Kasaki was born Tabira, later wife of Piyi (Pianchi).
		He caused one of his daughters, Amenardis, to be consecrated Adorer of Amun in Thebes.
	nar-mer.tripod.com /dyn/25en.htm (990 words)

	National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums
		It Lies in Kaboshiya area, and it is the capital of Meroitic Kingdom (4 century B.C. - 4 century A.D.) and includes the remains of old Meroe town with its temples, mansions, baths and three groups of pyramids in which the kings and nobles of Meroitic Kingdom were buried.
		It lies 24 kms from jabal Al-Barkal and includes graves that are dug inside the stones and coloured with fascinating paintings, where the first kings of Napata, some of whom ruled Egypt in what was known as the 25th Dynasty, where buried.
		It lies on the same bank of the Nile, 15 kms away from Nuri, and includes temples from Napata period, besides remains of a town and cemetary of the same era.
	www.sol-sd.com /news/123/ARTICLE/1239/2006-09-23.html (839 words)

	Pyramids in the Sudan - Nubia - Crystalinks
		The restoration of the ram's fleece, in spiral curls, is also found on the even larger statues which border the access to the Temple of Amon at Meroe.
		The area of the Nile valley known as Nubia that lies within present day Sudan was home to three Kushite kingdoms during antiquity: the first with its capital at Kerma (24001500 BC), that centred on Napata (1000300 BC) and, finally, that of Meroe (300 BC300).
		The Napatan domination of Egypt was relatively brief - it ended with the Assyrian conquest in 656 BC - but its cultural impact was enormous, and this coalesced into an extraordinary burst of pyramid-building activity that was sustained throughout the existence of Napata's successor kingdom, Meroe.
	www.crystalinks.com /pyramidsudan.html (797 words)

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