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Conflict Middle East

Kushite Conquest of Egypt

747 BCE – 656 BCE · 91 years

The Nubian Kingdom of Kush conquered Egypt, establishing the 25th Dynasty. Pharaohs like Piye and Taharqa unified the Nile Valley from Napata to the Mediterranean before Assyrian invasions ended Kushite rule.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Kingdom of Kush (Nubia)
  • Libyan rulers of Egypt

Key moments

Defining events in the Kushite Conquest of Egypt.

  1. c. 727 BC Piye's Conquest of Egypt
  2. 727 BC Battle of Memphis
  3. 671 BC Assyrian Invasion of Egypt

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Kingdom of David and Solomon

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Nile River Trade

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Dead Sea

3000 BCE – still standing

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Mesopotamian Trade Network

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Wadi Rum

3000 BCE – still standing

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Elam

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 747 BCE and 656 BCE.

700 BCE Thonis 745 BCE Sargonid Assyrian Conquests 743 BCE Messenian Wars 720 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 710 BCE Lelantine War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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