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Kushite Egypt (Twenty-fifth Dynasty)

Nubian 'Black Pharaohs' of Kush who conquered and ruled all of Egypt as the 25th Dynasty.

The Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty (c. 747–656 BCE) was driven out of Egypt by the Assyrian Empire under Esarhaddon (who captured Memphis in 671 BCE) and definitively expelled by Ashurbanipal, who sacked Thebes in 663 BCE; Tantamani (664–656 BCE) was the last Kushite pharaoh to hold any claim in Egypt, after which the Twenty-sixth (Saite) Dynasty replaced Kushite rule.

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Further reading

• The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia Associate Research Scientist Geoff Emberling · 1996

  The current authoritative survey of ancient Nubia, from the A-Group and Kerma through Kush and Meroe.

• The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Ian Shaw · 2000

  Treats the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty (broad Egyptian context).

• From Slave to Pharaoh Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Donald B Redford · 2006

  Egyptologist Donald Redford traces the Nubian presence in Egypt and the rise and rule of the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

Sources

• Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt — Wikipedia