Napata

[ nap-uh-tuh ]

noun

1. an ancient city of Nubia and Cush, situated downstream from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile river, in present-day Sudan.

Example Sentences

But the caravan was approaching Napata and the Ethiopian emerald-mines and topaz-rocks.

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There are also extensive ruins of his great buildings at Denderah, Ombos, and Napata.

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We may go by the same path that the army will take: the gorges of Napata: the way will be free till to-morrow.

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Moreover, the later ruins found at Napata, especially some twenty small pyramids, are feeble imitations of Egyptian art.

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Here mead flowed and foaming golden beer and heavy Mareotis wines and the intoxicating liqueurs of Napata.

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